In article <408d0b94@news.povray.org>,
 Nicolas Calimet <pov### [at] freefr> wrote:

> > You 
> > might consider proposing this to the libpng guys so it might get added 
> > to libpng.
> 
> 	But using floating point in this format as Christopher describes
> is not "portable" (the P in PNG) anymore, or am I wrong somewhere ?

It is portable.
The portability problem with binary data comes from the fact that the 
native format may have a different layout on different platforms. The 
FNG code encodes and decodes the actual bit pattern, and will read and 
write it the same way on all platforms.

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