Hi Christoph,

Yeah, I think PNG will be the best. But using Windows I've to render it 
with -D to close the preview window, because if I use the preview window it 
gives an error.

And Targa format?

Regards,
Oleguer



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> Oleguer Vilella wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've to render a very big image. What format output file will be the 
>> best?
>> I can't render it using .BMP.
>
> Of course BMP is a very bad choice as output format for POV-Ray but it is 
> unlikely that you run into any format specific limit.  The size limit of 
> BMP is probably even higher than 65535x65535.  You will however run into 
> trouble if your OS does not support very large files (the above size with 
> 24bpp, uncompressed is already 12 GB)
>
> Using PNG of PPM should be fine for all image sizes you might seriously 
> want to render (but as said subject to the OS/file system capabilities).
>
> Christoph
>
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