From: Richard <legalize at xmission.com>
To: cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, 15 March 2013, 22:09
Subject: Re: PNG image decompression
In article <1363218663.27571.YahooMailNeo at
web171605.mail.ir2.yahoo.com>,
? ? Andrew Burton <aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
I have sucessfully decoded all the easy stuff,
but am currently trying
to decode the IDAT chunk (where the image data is stored).
Why aren't you using libpng?
Because that is far too easy and I wanted to learn how to decode the
PNG file format. Using a library teaches me nothing, not to mention
adds unecessary bulk (the routines I don't use) to whatever I'm using
PNG's in.