Re: [GD-DEVEL] save Grayscale PNG with gd

[email protected] (Dieter Guthmann)
Newsgroups php.gd.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Pierre,

Pierre wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2007 10:45 AM, Dieter Guthmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> is it possible to save a GD-created image as grayscale-PNG-File?
>>     
> Not yet, there is already a patch in our issues tracker to read
> GrayScale PNG image (http://bugs.libgd.org/?do=details&task_id=88) but
> I did not yet manage to add write support for PNG grayscale images.
>
> The plan is to first add a grayscale internal format (8, 16 or 32,
> with alpha or not) and then allow one to save it as a grayscale image
> (png, tiff, tga for ex.). Alternatively you can use the grayscale
> conversion function to convert the image to a faked grayscale image
> and save it as a rgba PNG. It is not the perfect solution but it is
> visually correct.
Am I right when I guess that the same problem concerns the TIFF or 
XPM-Format?
My original problem is that I need a high-resolution-image in a relative 
small file in PNM/PGM or XPM-File-Format (PNM is very big when it stores 
color-images)...
When I use the pngtopnm-converter of the netpbm-package to convert from 
png to pgm/pnm then netpbm creates a (big-sized) pnm-image when the 
source is in color or it creates a (relativley small-sized) pgm-image 
when the source-file is in grayscale...

Rgds.,
Dieter
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