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Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4
- Subject: Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4
- From: Paul Woodford <woodford(at)us.net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:50:08 -0400
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- Organization: Essex Corporation
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In article <8stoek$8nl$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Andrew <noymer@my-deja.com>
wrote:
> In my experience (which is
> limited) PNG is just as good as GIF and is, of course,
> unencumbered by the LZW compression patent crap.
In my experience, PNG is much better than GIF. PNG supports 24-bit
color; GIF does not. PNG also produces smaller files than GIF.
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Paul Woodford, Ph.D.
Essex Corporation
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