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Hi Gerald
Short answer right now is, it depends.
According to information I just got for the project I'm working on, PNG
was added to AFP but might or might not work.
Here's some info -
"On the IBM i, they can be included in an *AFPDS printer file with the
AFPRSC DDS keyword. While we do not have a special "object type" value
for PNG images, they can be by specifiying the component id (65)
assigned to PNG images by AFP."
BTW, GIFs have a component ID of 22 and they DO work with the various
transforms.
Here's more of the "maybe" bit - the AFP team (that's not an IBM i
group) added PNG in 2011. Not all IPDS printers support it yet. PSF/I on
IBM I CAN handle PNGs IF you print to an IPDS printer that can handle them.
And the transforms on IBM i do NOT handle them. I suspect that should be
YET - and it'd be cool if you submitted a requirement at
requirements.common.org for this.
I'm taking PNGs and converting to GIFs, which do work - using
ImageMagick in PASE to do this - Michael Schutte had some replies to me
recently - he's done this with GIFs, which he gets from a web service -
we're getting PNGs from iPhones.
HTH
Vern
On 4/7/2016 1:36 PM, Gerald Magnuson wrote:
I just want to ask... because my millennial challenged cow-orkers say
"everything can use .png"
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