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6 Jul 2024 07:52:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Default file type  
From: Slime
Date: 25 Apr 2010 19:13:28
Message: <4bd4cc98$1@news.povray.org>
> Hmm, I vote no. Sorry to be the one nay-sayer here. Given the past 
> problems of
> different applications not reading the embedded gamma of .png images 
> correctly,
> is this a good idea?  Or am I missing something that I should know about?
>
> Is this idea based purely on image quality (.png vs. .jpeg, for example)?

I don't think the default file type should be one that uses lossy 
compression. However, I agree that the gamma confusion makes PNG less than 
ideal. I'm not sure there's a better format though.

 - Slime
 [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]


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