png output includes timestamp which cannot be turned off, preventing file comparison to imply image comparison

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png output includes timestamp which cannot be turned off, preventing file comparison to imply image comparison #20

Open jbfaden opened 3 years ago

jbfaden commented 3 years ago

The PNG output includes an extra timestamp tag ("*tEXtCreation Time"), which makes it so the same png file written twice cannot be compared using file comparisons. It would be nice to be able to disable this tag.

jbfaden commented 3 years ago

I'm using Autoplot's writeToPng( ) function.