PNG format co-designer Glenn Randers-Pehrson has died

Re:PNG format co-designer Glenn Randers-Pehrson has died by arunmp on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @10:42PM (#18298227)

I prefer PNGs to almost any other format in my documents, since they seem to be almost lossless and also dont bloat the size. Such a great work must surely be a product of a brilliant Mind. RIP Glenn Randers-Pehrson.

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Re:PNG format co-designer Glenn Randers-Pehrson has died by a1369209993 on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @11:41PM (#18298417)

> they seem to be almost lossless

The should be just plain (completely) lossless unless your image encoder is doing something evil behind your back.

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Re:PNG format co-designer Glenn Randers-Pehrson has died by gwbas1c on Thursday October 25, 2018 @05:46AM (#18299663)

I thought there are "lossy" encoders that do things like dither and reduce the colorspace?

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Re:PNG format co-designer Glenn Randers-Pehrson has died by gpvos on Thursday October 25, 2018 @06:36AM (#18299863)

There are, but those are not the ones one thinks of by default when talking about PNG. If they do, they should clearly tell you they are doing something nonstandard.

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