PIL and format conversions -- Noobie.

[Ron Phillips]

I have a monster jpg (128 mb) that comprises a handful of colors (20 or
so, max). It should never have been compressed with jpeg compression, as
I understand it. It should have been a png or gif, since they are made
to handle blocks of a few colors.
 
I used PIL to convert it to png and to gif, and it got even bigger (6 -
8 x) -- am I using PIL wrong, or is PIL the wrong tool? If so, how
should I use PIL so it best compresses the outfile? Or, what tool should
I use?
 
Ron 
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