Re: Why is it that png files are not dependable over the long haul

Ruben Safir <ruben-v1XHP5QhJixWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> Mon, 6 Aug 2018 16:16:17 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.png.devel
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On 08/06/2018 02:20 PM, Dustin Oprea wrote:
> The issue that you're having has existed for one month fourteen years ago.
> Next year, it'll be fifteen years. In five years, it'll be about twenty
> since it happened. It's in the distant past by this point. Unfortunately,
> you were negatively affected by it. Unfortunately, not many others were.
> Unfortunately, it's not a quick fix.
> 
> If you need to tweak libpng's behavior, just clone it, modify it, build it,
> and keep it separate from the system version. No need for it to get
> complicated.


I see.  So these options cause a break in libpng's behavior from the
sepecification, but allow me to render these images.

I can rerender them then and forget about this happening again.



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