Chad Robinson said: > I do agree that PNG is probably the best way > to go. JPG would be an awful image format for an essentially monochrome, > raster-drawn image, I agree. Would GIF be better or are there > copyright/patent concerns?
The main US GIF compression patent either just expired, or will soon (IANAL, so don't quote me on that. I use PNG as a silent protest of the silliness surrounding GIF, and because it has better support in open source tools). I think that there are other worldwide patents still floating around, though. PNG, being a newer and less encumbered spec, is probably a better choice. No need to trade off the compression functionality of libgif for the legally unencumbered but less efficient libungif, for instance. Either way, it's just a matter of configuration options if you render the resulting PostScript code through ghostscript. -- Charles Lepple [EMAIL PROTECTED]
