31 Jan
2006
31 Jan
'06
7:16 p.m.
[...] but the simple answer is that the compression
scheme used by
PNG compresses smaller and decompresses faster than what GIF uses.
I never claimed
otherwise. I merely pointed out it is a great deal
more complicated. If you don't have a need for more than 256 colors,
you don't have a
need for PNG.
Well, unless you need a non-1bpp alpha channel, or non-composed alpha,
some such.
But don't dismiss the format just because you
don't have a need for
it.
Oh, I wasn't. Except in this particular case, and that conditional on
the colour line-art being suitable for quantizing down to a
sufficiently small set of colours.
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