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All integers that require more than one byte must be in network
byte order: the most significant byte comes first, then the less
significant bytes in descending order of significance (MSB ...
... so multiple samples of a single pixel are never packed into one
byte. 16-bit samples are stored in network byte order (MSB
first).
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It has been asked why PNG uses network byte order. We have
selected one byte ordering and used it consistently. Which order
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... selected one byte ordering and used it consistently. Which order
in particular is of little relevance, but network byte order has
the advantage that routines to convert to and from it are already
available on any platform that supports TCP/IP ...
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The authors wish to acknowledge the contributions of the Portable
Network Graphics mailing list, the readers of comp.graphics ...