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PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 6:44 pm    Post subject: .png Reply to topic Reply with quote
What is this .png format i heard about, and how do you convert to it?
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 8:37 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote
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PNG stands for Portable Network Graphics. It was designed to replace gifs, since they are patented. PNGs are free for anyone to use.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 9:19 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote
Didn't Unisys's patent on the LZW algoritm expire not too long ago?
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 11:32 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote
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From http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/Gif/Gif.html:

The United States LZW patent expired on June 20th, 2003. According to Unisys, the counterpart Canadian patent expires July 7, 2004, the counterpart patents in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy expire June 18, 2004, and the Japanese counterpart patents expire June 20


In some parts, yes, it did expire. In other parts, no, it did not. Anyways, png file are ALWAYS smaller than gifs, plus they support more features (>8bit, alpha transparency), and less annoying ones (no animated).
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 9:26 am    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote
Yes, PNGs will never go out of style. icon_smile.gif
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 5:34 pm    Post subject: Re: .png Reply to topic Reply with quote
FudLe Pucker wrote:
how do you convert to it?


How do you convert pictures to png format? Its not an option in save as menu in mspaint
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote
get some real imaging software sa_tongue.gif

ie. Adobe Photoshop 7.0
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 10:05 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote
Or the GNU Image Manipulation Program (The GIMP).
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