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The Black Ice
Printer Drivers can convert any printable file into a variety of
formats, including PNG.
Printer Driver Overview
The PNG file
format was created by CompuServe and is intended to provide a
portable, legally unencumbered, simple, lossless,
streaming-capable, well-compressed, well-specified standard for
bitmapped image files which gives new features to the end user
at minimal cost to the developer. The PNG file format, while not
extremely more powerful then GIF compression, is said to replace
GIFs in the future as more and more applications start to
support it.
Web
designers can expect an improvement over GIFs in transparency
capabilities, cross platform gamma correction and
two-dimensional interlaving. On the down side, PNGs are not
designed to support multiple images or animated images while GIF
does support these features.
Image
editors may also benefit from the PNG compression over TIFF
files because of it’s compression algorithm which is lossless in
nature. Also, if the PNG file format is supported by a product,
it will be viewable and editable in any application which
supports PNG, which is not the case with TIFF files.
The PNG
files format supports: 1, 4, 8, 24 bits per pixel.
PNG support is
included in the following Black Ice printer drivers:
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