The expiration of this patent has no effect on Fractint at all. We didn't implement PNG because of memory limitations involving the medium model and Fractint's large size. <<
Yes, but once there was a fear of user fees that Unisys might invoke to anyone who generated gifs. Now, that will no longer be possible.
PNG is a superior format to GIF in almost every respect. For one thing, PNG supports true color and GIF does not. That's just the beginning. <<
I agree.
Howver, for 256 color images, GIF has been just fine. The DOS fractint will always keep GIF. On other platforms we can support PNG, and maybe also GIF if anyone cares. I know you care for backwards compatability. <<
Yes, I have over 70 full archived CDs of Fractint Gifs that I've I've generated over the years (over 50,000 images) that I would like to be able to input to any future platforms. Lee