Recently I have heard many good things about the graphics format .png. It has been around for a while, but I haven't really noticed it until this year, and I was wondering something about it as compared to .gif or .jpg graphics files.

I heard that Perl works better with .png's than with any other type of standard internet type graphics formats. Is this true? Or do people simply choose .png's over .gifs to edit in Perl?

I was curious about this, because I am a graphics designer as well as a beginning programmer, and am interested in how I can best change the appearance of graphics without having to create a new one for every different color, etc. So I am sincerely interested in finding out if .png's are better than .gif's for this type of Perl work.

Thank you very much!

Andy Summers

In reply to Which graphics format can Perl alter easier and more? by bladx

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