On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:37:55PM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote:
> "Alan Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Just curious, is there a reason that PNG is a bad choice for this?
> >
> > Lossless compression seems like it'd be a great advantage and it isn't a fly
> > by night file format.
> 
> Does PNG support 16 bit per channel?  If not then TIFF is probably the
> better choice for those.

Yes, it does.  I do medical diagnostic software, and we use the 16-bit
support of PNG every day.

Jeff

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