[Image-SIG] Re: Serious PNG bug

[Bernhard Herzog]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik@pythonware.com> writes:

> Yitzchak Gale wrote:
> 
> > This is yet another reminder about a serious
> > bug in PIL regarding the PNG format. 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,
> that has been mentioned in the PIL documentation since PNG
> support was first added (December 1996).

It's *not* about interlaced PNGs. PIL cannot even read some of the PNGs
it wrote itself with default settings, which among other things means
non-interlaced. How often do I have to repeat that? I'm a bit annoyed by
this, sorry. :(

> I cannot find any trace of a patch in my image-sig mailbox;
> I'll check the mail.python.org archives as soon as I can get
> through to python.org...

I can send it again, if you like.

   Bernhard

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