Re: TECH: PNG files

Don writes:
>>>>>>
Caveat: while NS and IE support _much_ of the PNG format, they don't
support _all_ of it; IE doesn't have any support in its Mac and Win3.1
versions, netscape lacks gamma correction, and transparency is limited
in both (not present at all in NS, and binary in IE).  That probably
means it's good enough to be usable until the browsers catch up, but I
thought I'd mention it.
<<<<<<
Waaah!  Ok, ok, you got me.  I fell for the propoganda without reading it
properly.  My bad.

>>>>>>
> As for software, I heartily recommend JASC Paint Shop Pro to all
> Windoze users.
Also, the GIMP is very nice if you're on a unixy system (and I think it
runs on Win* as well?)
<<<<<<
A Win* GIMP?  Gimme!!!

>>>>>>
> On a related note, unless your images are very small, or are
> absolutely dependent on individual pixel values, I'd advocate JPG over
> PNG any day of the week.  (Asbestos suit at the ready! :-)
That very much depends on the type of the image.  If an image is e.g. a
photograph, with lots of gradients, then jpg makes sense; but if it is
more geometric or discrete, then gif or png would definitely be much
better.
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That's what I said, didn't I?

(Sorry, probably bad terminology on my part: "small" was sposed to mean "in
resolution (not byte) terms", "absolutely dependent on individual pixel values"
was sposed to mean "geometric or discrete" or possibly "required to be
lossless", or very possibly both, as the former tends to imply the latter.)


Was the "Besserwissers" directed at onyone in particular?  I'll try not to take
it personally <G>


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Pb







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