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Re: POV rendering file format
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lugnet.cad.ray
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Sat, 30 Mar 2002 13:31:30 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Steve Barile writes:
> Hi All,
> Just thought I'd send this out. I'm sure most of you know this but for those
> who don't it is a huge disk space and upload/download time saver.
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> By adding "+FN" to the POV or MegaPOV command line or click on the big "INI"
> button in the Windows interface and add it to the "Command line options"
> text box, it will save the rendered bitmaps as .PNG files instead of .BMP
> files which are un compressed and typically huge.
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> The .PNG is great because it is a 24 bit format that uses loss-less
> compression which means no quality/generation degradation.
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> Here's a web site that talks about PNG
> www.libpng.org/pub/png/png-sitemap.html#info
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> The intro page is here:
> http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngintro.html
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> SteveB
Hey, thanks for that tip! My BMP files don't live long anyway, I convert
them to PNG right away, but it saves on hard disk thrashing.
> PNLTC
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| Hi All, Just thought I'd send this out. I'm sure most of you know this but for those who don't it is a huge disk space and upload/download time saver. By adding "+FN" to the POV or MegaPOV command line or click on the big "INI" button in the Windows (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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