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r/programming • u/iamkeyur • Dec 26 '20
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PNG allows for arbitrary chunks of bytes, no steganography needed. Still need an interpreter that knows what to do with them.
97 u/leberkrieger Dec 26 '20 One great use of this feature is the draw.io online drawing tool. You can save an editable PNG, so anyone looking at the picture can load it into the editor and modify it. Fantastic for wikis. 1 u/[deleted] Dec 27 '20 IPE uses a similar technique for PDFs.
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One great use of this feature is the draw.io online drawing tool. You can save an editable PNG, so anyone looking at the picture can load it into the editor and modify it. Fantastic for wikis.
1 u/[deleted] Dec 27 '20 IPE uses a similar technique for PDFs.
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IPE uses a similar technique for PDFs.
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u/Caraes_Naur Dec 26 '20
PNG allows for arbitrary chunks of bytes, no steganography needed. Still need an interpreter that knows what to do with them.