POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Default file type : Re: Default file type Server Time
5 Oct 2024 01:49:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Default file type  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 26 Apr 2010 13:44:50
Message: <4bd5d112$1@news.povray.org>
On 26.04.10 19:34, Warp wrote:
> clipka<ano### [at] anonymousorg>  wrote:
>> Am 26.04.2010 15:01, schrieb Warp:
>>> Slime<fak### [at] emailaddress>   wrote:
>>>> I don't think the default file type should be one that uses lossy
>>>> compression.
>>>
>>>     I didn't know that POV-Ray even supported lossy formats as output...
>
>> Contrary to rumors, POV-Ray can output JPEG.
>
>    Is that new in POV-Ray 3.7? How do you fine-tune the compression options?

It has been there in 3.6 as well, but was simply inaccessible from the 
command line (but would have been accessible i.e. for special rendering of 
insert menus from inside POV-Ray, though this was not done). In 3.7 general 
access was added.

	Thorsten


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