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Subject: Re: [9fans] PNG and APE (cntd)
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:59:32 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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>> And, BTW, PNG allows 16-bit per colour, a 48-bit depth per pixel.
>> Thanks to libpng, my "npng" can render these as 24-bit images.
>
> ``the human ear can't hear as high as that / still, it ought to please any passing bat''

Just because there's no value in the higher resolution does not mean
that some fool isn't going to send you a picture you can't render.
And, honestly, it's very little effort to implement in the renderer.
I have no idea how much effort the developers of libpng had to expend
to get it right.

++L