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29 Jul 2024 06:24:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: PNG output always lossless  
From: "Jérôme M. Berger"
Date: 25 Oct 2012 14:13:16
Message: <5089813c$1@news.povray.org>
Sereib wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is the png output file format of POV-Ray (when using +FN in the ini fil
e) 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.
> 
	As others have said, PNG is always lossless. The "compression
level" setting that some software offers is simply a compromise
between speed/memory and file size (same as for zip files since PNG
uses the same compression algorithm as zip).

		Jerome
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