Re: Sample-based thumbnailing built into libpng?

Andrew Klaassen <clawsoon-/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.png.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 1/20/17, Glenn Randers-Pehrson <[email protected]> wrote:

> I didn't see your mail right away.  It went into the SPAM folder
> evidently because of it came from a "yahoo.com"
> account.

Thanks for finding my email and responding despite that.

> The message says that it's not
> possible.  That fact is still true.  A PNG decoder needs
> all the preceding bytes in order
> to decode a row, because of how zlib compression and
> PNG filtering work.

Ah, I didn't realize that PNGs were compressed as a whole rather than chunk-by-chunk or line-by-line.  Thanks for the clarification.

Andrew


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