2 Jun
2005
2 Jun
'05
12:39 p.m.
>>>> "der" == der Mouse <mouse
at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> writes:
> PNG is a nice, open and flexible format which is
designed to be
> the best cross-platform lossless image format.
der> ...something it is noticeably worse at than the netpbm family
der> (pbm, pgm, ppm). (I can hardly imagine writing png-format image
der> software without using a library. I routinely do so with p?m
der> formats.)
Sure, but that's because the netpbm formats are designed to be
maximally trivial, so they are extremely inefficient. If you want
compression, it won't be trivial, ever.
paul