JDK-4101708 : Add PNG image file format support to JDK
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: client-libs
  • Sub-Component: 2d
  • Affected Version: 1.2.0
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: generic,windows_nt
  • CPU: generic,x86
  • Submitted: 1998-01-05
  • Updated: 2000-01-21
  • Resolved: 1999-05-17
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1.3.0 1.3Fixed
Description

Name: gvC48267			Date: 01/05/98


I suggest to add PNG graphics format support to JDK.
AFAIK only JPEG and GIF are currently supported.
PNG supports many nice features like Alpha chanel, 
lossless true-color which will fit nicely to Java2D and
are unvailable in GIF and JPEG.

Utility class that writes any image to output strean as PGN would be also
very useful for image processing apps.

PNG home page: http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/
File archive: ftp://ftp.uu.net:/graphics/png/
(Review ID: 22788)
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Comments
CONVERTED DATA BugTraq+ Release Management Values COMMIT TO FIX: generic kestrel FIXED IN: 1.3 kestrel INTEGRATED IN: 1.3
14-06-2004
EVALUATION This is currently under serious consideration for the next release. There is no committment as of yet, though. jim.graham@Eng 1998-01-05 Support for reading png files added by jag, yingxian. jeannette.hung@Eng 1999-05-04
05-01-1998