PNG and TIFF

PNG

IconPainter offers full support for both solid and transparent PNG images. Like GIF, if a PNG is saved as a transparent image when created then when it is re-edited IconPainter will realize it has transparent pixels and save it accordingly. Using the 'saveas' feature can cause the PNG to revert back to solid PNG if desired. IconPainter can read and write PNG under the Java 1.3 VM and does not require 1.4.

TIFF

IconPainter reads and writes TIFF images by using the free Java Advanced Imaging library which can be downloaded from Sun at

http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jai/index.html

IconPainter detects if these libraries are available to it and it's displays are altered accordingly. For instance TIFF files won't appear listed when choosing a file to open if the libraries aren't present. When creating TIFF files images are always written in an uncompressed format.