POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : File Format : Re: File Format Server Time
9 Aug 2024 11:31:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: File Format  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 12 Sep 2000 00:00:22
Message: <39bdaa56@news.povray.org>
In article <39BD8263.18216803@pacbell.net> , Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet>  
wrote:

> Currently no, not with the official version anyway. The next
> version of POV-Ray will allow you to output to .jpg but it
> is not finished yet. Gif output is not supported nor will it
> ever likely be supported.

Nope, this is a point that had not been made clear in the list of
features...

There will *not* be JPEG output, only reading of JPEG files will be allowed.
This is by design and it is unlikely POV-Ray will ever support JPEG as
output format because it is not lossless.


      Thorsten Froehlich


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