[Freeciv-Dev] Re: XPM format

[Brian Olson <locke@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday, January 22, 2001, at 07:32 PM, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Thue wrote: 
>  
> > Any reason not to move the freeciv gfx to .png? 
>  
> Having to depend on libpng and zlib is one. 

Interesting. In writing the MacOS X port(still coming along, slowly), I 
converted all the .xpm files in data/ to png. MacOS X's Aqua/Cocoa GUI library 
supports reading a lot of formats, but not xpm. Aside from GIF, png seemed the 
most convenient format that had the right sort of keyed transparency. And png 
is of course more politically correct.

Is the situation similar on Windows? Is png a better format for moving to true 
color tiles an sprites?
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