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PNG-encoding of ICO files does not work in IM-6.7.8-3 because of a bug that causes coders/icon.c to never use PNG encoding (at line 854, both "> 256L" should be ">= 256L"). Also, we need to ensure that we only write png32-formatted PNGs inside an ICO, according to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511280.aspx (otherwise at least Fiirefox will reject them). That can be accomplished by setting the png:format=png32 artifact in icon.c; the png encoder will read this artifact and write a PNG32.

I have checked in a fix to IM-6.7.8-4 (SVN revision 8691) and IM-7.0.0 (SVN revision 8692). When the subimage dimensions are 256x256, "BI_PNG" compression is used, with the subimage encoded in PNG32 format (32-bit RGBA PNG pixels), only if image->compression is UndefinedCompression or ZipCompression.