On 2001-02-02 21:29, D.J. Brown <ext### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>"Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote in message
>news:3a7ae96e@news.povray.org...
>> BTW jpeg compression has been suprisingly unpleasant to them -

Have a look at
http://www.students.tut.fi/~warp/povVFAQ/filesVFAQ.html#noartifactsinjpeg

>> is png acceptable for the majority now?
>
>I think PNG would be fine for everyone.

PNGs are for most scenes a lot larger than JPGs. So for those of us who
use modems and don't have a flat rate, they are a waste of resources and
money.

>It's the recommended replacement for GIFs by the W3C and has built-in
>gamma correction.

Yes, that's handy. PNG is a very nice file format, but the lack of a
lossy compression mode is really a disadvantage compared to JPG.

	hp

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