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Re: Storing an NSImage File

Subject: Re: Storing an NSImage File
From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 10:28:10 -0700

On Aug 2, 2013, at 10:21 AM, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:

>> The only difference between the various bitmap image formats is the space they take up on disk, and whether they use lossy or lossless compression on disk. If you want to make sure no data is lost, a losslessly compressed or uncompressed TIFF is the safest choice.
>
> Why not PNG?  PNG data chunks for image chunks use zip compression that's lossless.

Also, these days I believe more apps (especially cross-platform) can read PNG than TIFF. For example, you can use PNG images in web pages but not TIFFs.

—Jens
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