How to prevent images being compressed inside Jar?

Hi There. I'm creating an applet that uses a Jar file. The Jar file contains three packages. A problem I'm having is when I create the jar using the switches -cvf all the files including some images that are used are compressed, then when the images are used in my application they are corrupted.
I can switch off the compression entirely using the -0 switch, this fixes the problem but makes my Jar file 1.5 MB instead of 300KB! Is there any way when creating the Jar file to prevent it from compressing the images?
Thanks.

If you are using ImageIO, you should (for now) wrap the stream into a new BufferedInputStream.
BufferedImage i = ImageIO.read(new BufferedInputStream(getClass().getResourceAsStream(path)));That does the trick ;)

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