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		gwbas1c on Oct 25, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PNG format co-designer Glenn Randers-Pehrson has d... I thought there are "lossy" encoders that do things like dither and reduce the colorspace?

gpvos on Oct 25, 2018 [–]

There are, but those are not the ones one thinks of by default when talking about PNG. If they do, they should clearly tell you they are doing something nonstandard.

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