Re: Which format for image file resources in Cocoa application?
Re: Which format for image file resources in Cocoa application?
- Subject: Re: Which format for image file resources in Cocoa application?
- From: Steven Spencer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 23:35:50 +0100
The LZW patent expired in 2004.
http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/giflzw.php
http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw
>> Last I checked, PNGs were lossless (at least by default, anyway).
>
>Also note that TIFF doesn't necessarily mean uncompressed, either.
>TIFF would often compress images using LZW, which turned out to be
>legally encumbered. Getting away from LZW was one of the reasons for
>PNG in the first place, IIRC. Of course, using a non-LZW-compressed
>(or simply not compressed) TIFF gets around the patent issue, too.
>
>J.
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