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

[Frank Warmerdam]

Brent Fraser wrote:
> Frank,
> 
>   Do you know if a bug was ever filed for this? (I have the
> same problem with paletted tiffs)

brent,

I'm afraid this is a "feature" not a bug.  As far as I know ECW
does not support palettes, so you are expected to convert to RGB
before writing to ECW, using a tool like pct2rgb.py.

If you believe ECW is supposed to support palettes then please file
a bug with details.

Best regards,
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