[Image-SIG] Re: Serious PNG bug

[Yitzchak Gale]

>> PIL sometimes fails while loading a valid PNG
>> image.
>> This bug was first reported on this list by
>> Bernhard Herzog way back in October 1999.

>if you're talking about problems reading interlaced PNG files,

No. That is not a bug, in my opinion. Of course it would be
a nice feature to have. By "valid" I mean one that
PIL officially supports - not interlaced.

>> Bernhard even posted a patch that fixes the bug
>> in July 2001.

>I cannot find any trace of a patch in my image-sig mailbox;

Here is a link to Bernhard's post on image-sig containing the
patch:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2001-July/001548.html

Regards,
Yitz

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