"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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> Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> : No, POV-Ray does not and will not *ever* support output to a palette
based
> : image format for exactly the same reason as there is no support for any
> : other lossy output image format.  No putting it on wish-lists and no
number
> : of user requests will change the POV-Team policy not to support lossy
output
> : image formats of any kind.
>
>   I personally support this principle.
>
>   (Of course a nitpicker could argue that even a 24-bit image format is
> lossy because POV-Ray calculates images using a float for each color
> component, and a float has certainly a lot more accuracy than a byte, but
> I think that's too much nitpicking even for me...)

Aren't you able, in PNG, to specify the number of bits per color?  Although
it only lets you go down to 5 bits per color, it's still pretty lossy :)

...Chambers

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