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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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