RE: [ROOT] PNG output?

From: Andy Buckley (buckley@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Apr 09 2004 - 13:20:03 MEST


On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 18:33, Valeri Fine wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hi again,
> > 
> > Is there any possibility that PNG bitmap output can be supplied in
> ROOT
> > in addition to GIF format? This would be very nice, since GIF has a
> > certain stigma due to the LZW compression patent (even thought I
> believe
> > it's now expired) and since PNG is simply a nicer, more modern format.
> > Apologies if it's already supported --- I couldn't find any mention of
> > it in the 4.00/03 release notes.
> > 
> 
> You can do that with 
> 
> http://root.cern.ch/root/htmldoc/TImage.html#TImage:FromPad 
> http://root.cern.ch/root/htmldoc/TImage.html#TImage:EImageFileTypes 

Great. Could PNG be added to the "Save canvas as..." file type list,
then?

Andy

-- 
Andy Buckley, HEP Group, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge
http://www.insectnation.org



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