Hello,

I'm not sure to whom I'm speaking - there's no signature.  Thank you for
your advice.  I do use JPEG's, and I do use Paint Shop Pro and AutoCAD to
convert images to JPEG's and TIFF's.

PNG seems to us like a "better" format than JPEG's and TIFF's.  Here are the
differences that are important to us:

JPEG                  TIFF                  PNG

Lossy                No loss               No loss
Very Small            Huge               Very Small
16.7 M Colors only  Some color levels   Many color levels
Compressed        Might be compressed    Compressed


The PNG is the only format of the three that wins in every category.  Will
ER Mapper support Portable Network Graphics soon?

Thank you, Shawn

Shawn Pike
CA DWR


-----Original Message-----
From: ER Mapper Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 8:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FW: ER Mapper Support Query 7246

>Shawn -

> > Does ER Mapper support the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) file formats?

No it does not.  It does support JPEG read/write if you want to
create graphics for web sites.  If you need to use PNG files in ER Mapper,
I'd suggest getting an inexpensive program like Paint Shop Pro to
convert them to TIFF for processing in ER Mapper (or vice versa to
export from ER Mapper to PNG).

Regards,



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