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		colejohnson66 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A new PNG spec That’s not “backwards compatible”, but “round tripable” or “lossless reencode”

illiac786 5 months ago [–]

exactly, it is absolutely not backward compatible. It is lossless-at-bit-level conversion of JPEG, but that doesn’t help older SW in any way.

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