[Coco] M.E.S.S. Printing

[Roger Taylor]

At 12:39 AM 12/20/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Is PNG format something peculiar to Linux?  Or can it be displayed on a
>Windows machine?
>I have two PCs, one with Linux and one with Win98.  If I ever get MESS, I'd
>probably run it on the Windows box since it is 3x faster and has lots more 
>RAM.


PNG was created as an attempt to get around the crazy LZW royalities that 
comes along with dealing with the GIF format, etc.  Unisys, I think was the 
name, wrote me back one time informing me that $500 was a one-time royalty 
if I charged for my program that used the LZW algorith, as in the GIF 
format.  Aw... I lost their e-mail address, shucks, what graphics viewer?? 
I never wrote a graphics viewer. :)

I've looked at PNG and it the file format looks like major overkill.  These 
guys might be smart, but they're no JPEG group, by any means.

Since we're on the subject.  Now that P-3 is available in source code and 
it's in the public domain, *and* I have some semi-converted JPEG source 
code (JuddPeg), maybe someone could continue where I left off and be the 
first person to bring JPEG to the CoCo world.


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Roger Taylor


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