POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: PNG output always lossless: Re: PNG output always lossless

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From: clipka
Date: 25 Oct 2012 11:19:09
Message: <5089586d$1@news.povray.org>

Am 25.10.2012 06:21, schrieb Sereib:

> is the png output file format of POV-Ray (when using +FN in the ini file) always
> lossless, independent from any computer system settings? I ask because most
> image editing software allows to set a compression level before saving a png
> file.

I guess you're mixing up png (which is always lossless) with jpeg (which 
is always lossy).

As for jpeg compression level, in POV-Ray 3.7 you can set that with the 
"compression=" ini file setting (specifying a value from 0.0 to 1.0, 
with 1.0 being highest quality).

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