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What is PNG?

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What is PNG?

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PNG is a multi-purpose raster format designed by an industry consortium to replace GIF and TIFF-LZW. It offers a variety of bit depths including 4-bit, 8-bit and 24-bit. The latest browsers now read PNG, as well as JPEG and GIF. RasterMaster writes PNG image files, permitting you to read a variety of file formats and output them as PNG or JPEG, for use on the Internet. What is JBIG? JBIG is a popular format that offers compression of bitonal images that is 20-40% better than Group 4 (currently the best popular bitonal compression format). Its main drawback is that few imaging applications currently support it. What is ABIC? ABIC is an IBM proprietary check imaging format available for Windows and Java platforms. What is a 24-bit True Color image? True color images, as defined in the industry today, are images for which each pixel is described by three bytes – one byte each for Red, Green and Blue. This gives each pixel the capability of being one of 16+ million colors. In general this

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PNG is a multi-purpose raster format designed by an industry consortium to replace GIF and TIFF-LZW. It offers a variety of bit depths including 4-bit, 8-bit and 24-bit. The latest browsers now read PNG, as well as JPEG and GIF. RasterMaster writes PNG image files, permitting you to read a variety of file formats and output them as PNG or JPEG, for use on the Internet.