[Gdal-dev] Conversion of paletted PNG to ECW does not work

[Frank Warmerdam]

Jean-Claude Repetto wrote:
> Hello Frank,
> 
> Thanks for your answer. I understand that ECW does not support palettes, 
> but I think gdal_translate should :
> - either convert the image to 24bit before converting it to ECW
> - either print an error message and stop.

Jean-Claude,

I agree that the ECW CreateCopy() method ought to report at least a warning
that the color table is being ignored.  If you file a bug on this, I can get
it fixed at some point.

Best regards,
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