Pcx .. Png

[Andriy U]

Hi, all,
thanks for your freeciv - great piece of mind! I just wonder i cannot find through your materials what makes freeciv team to switch from PCX to PNG format. Why PNG (and not JPEG for example)?
I need to select graphic format for my TBS game, so this question bothers me.
Thanks for your comments,
Andriy U

[Per]

We never used PCX, we originally used the XPM format. The reason for PNG is that it is an open format, a W3C standard and has good support for high res and alpha blending, in addition to very good compression.

Of course, JPEG has even higher compression, but it is lossy (parts of the graphics will be lost in compression). It is used mostly for compression of photographs.

[Andriy U]

Sorry for PCX :-),
i've made a mistake in first message.