[Digikam-devel] Imaging Library

[Caulier Gilles]

Le Lundi 20 Juin 2005 19:27, Renchi Raju a écrit :
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> >> PNG (planned)
> >
> > PNG is very important. I have over 10.000 photographs in this format to
> > my hosts computer.
>
> as i said, file formats not natively recognized will be loaded by qt's
> image loader. (the png files are loaded by qimage currently). The only
> reason to write a native loader is to support metadata preservation and/or
> 16 bit image formats. ignoring esoteric formats like EXR; the only loaders
> i can see of interest are: JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PPM.

Just a question about PNG : it supports really 16 bits/color/pixel like TIFF ?

Gilles