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6       compression_overview - File compression
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8       Coin can support reading and writing Inventor and VRML files compressed
9       with either gzip or bzip2 (as of yet - more formats may come in the
10       future). This functionality is of course only enabled when Coin can
11       link with the corresponding compression libraries.
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13       Reading of compressed files happens in a transparent manner - there is
14       nothing the developer has to do to support this.
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16       Writing of compressed files is controlled through the
17       SoOutput::setCompression method.
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19       The list of available compression methods can be fetched with the
20       SoOutput::getAvailableCompressionMethods method.
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22       You can not use file compression together with I/O to memory buffers,
23       except for reading from memory buffers containing gzip-compressed
24       files.
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26       For backwards compatibility with Coin 2.0 and Coin 1.0, compressed
27       files must not be used. Compressed files works only from Coin 2.1 and
28       upwards.
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30       Since
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33       See also
34           SoOutput::setCompression, SoOutput::getAvailableCompressionMethods
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36Version 2.5.0                   Wed Jan 18 2023        compression_overview(3)