Name: sgC58550 Date: 06/02/97


It would be /* really nice */ to have a little more image
file format capability natively. Specifically, the ability
to save files in the supported formats (currently gif and jpeg).

Because of the limitations and proprietary nature of gif and jpeg
formats it would be nice to have a non-proprietary lossless
format available. Allow me to suggest PNG. After all, it's even
been accepted by the www consortium as an image format.

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[Another user]


I would like to be able to load PNG images as
a java.awt.Image just as I currently can load
GIFs. PNG is better than GIF, plus it's free.
Please add PNG support to AWT.

The PNG home page is at http://www.wco.com/~png/

joon.oh@Eng 1997-10-08