[GRASSLIST:2968] Re: PNG size

Miha STAUT wrote:

> What is the maximum size of the PNG driver picture. Yesterday I tried about
> 24000 x 46000 and it produced an error.

It's limited by available memory. However, with the recent 5.3 PNG
driver (which doesn't use GD), each cell is an "unsigned int"
(typically 4 bytes), regardless of whether GRASS_TRUECOLOR is set.

If there was sufficient demand, I suppose that we could have separate
8-bit and 24-bit PNG drivers. Whatever the OS limitations, a version
which used one byte per cell would allow for images four times as
large as one which used four bytes per cell.

--
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>

Thanks, Glynn

In some rare cases I suppose the 8-bit driver would come useful.

Miha Staut

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