Re: PNG loading time

Hartmut Henkel via tex-live <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:57:22 +0100 (CET)

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Hi Norbert,

On Tue, 10 Feb 2026, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > The code p_png.c by Thomas Merz, from which "PNG copy" was gleaned,
> > supports also palette and does so by added code. But this was not
> > implemented in writepng.c (likely due to laziness).
>
> Interesting, PDFLite library code, right?

no, p_png.c from "PDFlib - A library for generating PDF on the fly",
Copyright (c) 1997-2002 PDFlib GmbH and Thomas Merz.

This file isn't openly available anymore, it seems.

Best Regards
Hartmut