Package: pngcrush
Version: 1.6.4-3
Severity: minor
As mentioned in another bug, a misleading man page error caused me to
wipe out a file:
% man pngcrush | grep -n -A 1 SYN
9:SYNOPSIS
10- pngcrush [options] [file1.png] [file2.png] ...
While referring to that erroneous man page SYNOPSIS, I had the bad luck
to run 'pngcrush' in a directory with only two files:
% ls -log
total 32554
-rw-r----- 1 16638693 Jun 14 2005 Jettaradio0001.png
-rw-r----- 1 16562597 Jun 14 2005 Jettaradio0002.png
% pngcrush *
[...]
Recompressing Jettaradio0001.png
[...]
Best pngcrush method = 9 (fm 5 zl 2 zs 2) for Jettaradio0002.png
[...]
If the above isn't completely clear, 'pngcrush' examined the first file,
then overwrote the second with an optimized compression of the first.
Result: two files with different names and the same image data, while the
original second file's image data was deleted.
I suggest avoiding the word "Recompressing" when the output file
has a different name. The prefix "Re-" (Latin: "again") implies it
should have the same name. It's 'recompressing' not the file,
but rather the file's IDAT chunk -- the result of which is output to a
second file.
Suggested rewording:
Recompressing IDAT chunk from Jettaradio0001.png
Hope this helps...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages pngcrush depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
pngcrush recommends no packages.
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