# PNG Support
**URL:** https://discourse.glfw.org/t/png-support/397
**Category:** support
**Created:** [November 29, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/png-support/397 "2006-11-29T18:34:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.glfw.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/png-support/397/1 "2006-11-29T18:34:12Z")
**nobody** wrote on [Wednesday, November 29, 2006](https://sourceforge.net/p/glfw/discussion/247562/thread/75e86dfa/#bd7b):
In my opinion PNG is a far more important format than TGA, and therefore needs to be added to GLFW. In my experience it compresses better than TGA, and most open source tools support png even if they don’t support anything else. It’s almost like the \*.bmp of linux.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.glfw.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2006, 7:49pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/png-support/397/2 "2006-11-29T19:49:27Z")
**[elmindreda](https://sourceforge.net/u/elmindreda/)** wrote on [Wednesday, November 29, 2006](https://sourceforge.net/p/glfw/discussion/247562/thread/75e86dfa/#bd7b/a344):
Yes, but there’s already very good PNG support in the libpng library.
Now, granted, with the availability of lodepng it’s indeed possible to add support for PNG reading, but that’s a slippery slope towards becoming a clone of DevIL. DevIL already exists, so I see little need to clone it.