Is it? I
thought the discussion was talking about colour line-art.
In scanning, line-art means 1bpp, at least in my experience;
Only if you like your
line art to be highly aliased!
I mean that, in a scanning context, if you see a "line art" setting, it
normally produces a 1bpp result.
When the art in question is something like a woodcut or an ink sketch -
which is what I suspect the line-art settings are more designed for -
aliasing is not a problem in the same way that it is for something
that, like an electronic schematic, is full of lines that really ought
to be aligned with the pixel grid's axes.
PNG most
certainly is not in all still-maintained graphics programs.
For example, I have an image displayer in live use (which I'm still
maintaining) which supports nothing but pbm/pgm/ppm.
Yeah, but pngtopnm has been
around for almost as long as png ;-).
giftopnm has been around even longer. :-)
Also, your image viewer doesn't support GIF
either, so :-P.
No, it doesn't - but I wasn't claiming GIF support in "all
still-maintained graphics programs", either. (:-? back atcha. :)
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