(mgp-users 00436) What about PNGs?

["Ruegsegger, Ted" <Ted.Ruegsegger@DynCorp.com>]

Since MagicPoint is free software, and GIFs are encumbered with proprietary
restrictions, I'm surprised I haven't seen support for the PNG ("Portable
Network Graphics," or "PNG's Not GIF!") format. As far as I know, that's the
only format besides GIF that supports transparency.

Like GIF, and unlike JPEG, PNG compression is lossless.

Since I haven't been able to find a home page that includes news and latest
developments (http://www.mew.org/mgp/ seems mainly for downloading), I may
well have missed this.

Is any work being done on supporting PNGs?


Theodore B. Ruegsegger
Director, Free Software Lab
DynCorp Information Systems
ted.ruegsegger@dyncorp.com

"The meaning of life is not a fact to be discovered, but a choice you
make about the way you live."  Hilda Bernstein, anti-apartheid activist




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerfried Fuchs [mailto:alfie@innocent.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 10:10 AM
> To: mgp-users@mew.org
> Subject: (mgp-users 00434) Re: transparent gifs
> 
> 
> On 14 Nov 2000, Karsten Petersen 
> <karsten.petersen@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> > some time ago I made a patch to let mgp load images using 
> imlib, that
> > patch is capable of using transparency in pictures too.
> > 
> > you can find it here:
> > 	http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~kapet/mgp/
> 
>  Are there any reasons why this is not going into the official
> distribution?
> 
>  So long!
> Alfie
> 
> P.S.: Btw, Alan Cox likes and uses mgp, because "it has no 
> GUI", and he
> "can edit with a regular texteditor" for fast presentations - prove is
> coming up on his webpage (the presentation he has done on LinuxTag in
> germany and yesterday in Vienna :-)  Keep tuned...
> -- 
> "There are some micro-organisms that exhibit characteristics of both
> plants and animals.  When exposed to light they undergo 
> photosynthesis;
> and when the lights go out, they turn into animals.  But then again,
> don't we all?"
>