[TYPO3-core] RFC: feature #2675

[Michael Stucki]

Hi Bernhard,

> During the rendering process there will get some .png's written probably.
> if png_truecolor isn't set to 1 those will get created as 8-bit indexed
> .png's like .gif are. When you set the flag both: Internal and final
> results will be truecolor instead (tough you still can set the
> .reduceColors option)

Hmm, what was the reason for not setting png_truecolor by default?

Another option would be to ignore the setting and enable it always for
internal operations...

> In one of the patches which I commited to this list I also introduced
> another new variable: png_internal or somehow like this. Setting this flag
> only internally truecolor .png's would get used as intermediate format.
> Michael declined this patch.

What would that change if the PNG is only 8bit?

> PS: I think png_truecolor should get mentioned somewhere in the
> installation documentation, but I can't find it currently in the
> Doc-matrix to find a suitable place.

Not needed if we set it by default.

- michael
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