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.PNG support | Stefan | PNG obsolete ?? (Miscellaneous)

posted by DOS386, 02.09.2007, 12:32

Rugxulo wrote:

> haven't tested it extensively with all types of JPEGs (and most .JPG decoders
> probably have issues with lossless or JPEG2000 or weird stuff like that)
NO. The affected JPG's are not JPEG-2000. JPEG-2000 is completely different from original JPG and completely useless (most other viewers will ("issues") reject them as well and no browser support at all BTW) because of the ridiculously restrictive licensing policy :-P

> don't know of a better / smaller / freer / 8086-compatible .JPG viewer
> (and .GIF and .BMP and .PCX with thumbnails, slide, zoom, all video modes)
Mostly true ... just no PNG and limited JPG support only, and some others are open source ("freer") ;-)

> > You could ask Stefan for source code and extend it.
> Already asked him for my FreeDOS floppy distro, and he refused
But what ? Source release ? Adding PNG ? Allow redistributing with your Distro ?

> But of course, it was really just meant to replace .GIF (whose LZW patents have
> finally expired). It's not for photographic images like JPEG is but is better for line

Missed something ? :crying: PNG "really just" as temporary hack obsoleted by LZW84 patent expiry ? PNG is the by far most useful image format ... and if a browser or viewer doesn't support it - fault of the browser or viewer :rotfl: And it's for photographic images as well (lostless, but less compression than JPG of course) ;-)

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