Glen Berry <7no### [at] ezwvcom> wrote in message
<372a46ca.924945@news.povray.org>...

>My personal wish was to not only create these sorts of files, but to
>view and print them in their full glory. If anyone knows how to do
>those last two tasks, please let me know also. I have never made a 16
>bpp PNG for the simple reason that I don't have any idea how to output
>the image to film without dithering to 8 bpp before the transfer. Does
>anyone else know of a method to do this?


I've finally got my addition to the POV 3.1e source working properly.  It
outputs as a 16bit RGBA file, with a similar format to TGA.  Photoshop 5
loads these if I manually specify the resolution and the 16 byte header and
it keeps the 16bits per channel.  I'm not sure if it also prints at 16bit,
printing on my original HP Deskjet wouldn't help much there :)

Mat Anger

mat### [at] angerforce9couk

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