Is there a lib which support .jpeg file with "RGBA" mode?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Peter Hansen wrote:

> google12 wrote:
> >
> > Ann... I had tried to use Photoshop 7 to save a .png file with transparency
> > as a .jpg file, and the transparency will be kept in the .jpg file.
>
> If JPEG doesn't support transparency, then clearly that couldn't have happened,
> or Photoshop uses a non-standard JPEG format.
>
> Perhaps Photoshop "transparently" (no pun intended) saves the alpha data
> to some other location, but magically restores it when you reload the .jpg?

JPEG supports application-defined data segments ("app markers"), so Photoshop
may simply pack the alpha layer using a suitable lossless compression (predictor
plus zip?) and embed it inside the JPEG stream.

or they may ignore that fact that using lossy compression for alpha layers isn't
really a good idea...

if anyone can mail me a sample (or better, post a sample somewhere, and mail
me an URL), I can look into it.

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