You can also lower the quality of PNG image as well as up the compression level. Doing so can make PNG's smaller than JPEG's.
For example a top quality JPEG has a larger file size than a best quality PNG. So I don't know what you use to create the PNG's but you should be able to edit these settings. On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:03:06 -0600, Curtis L. Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A fair point ... I'll take care of it ... > > Curt. > > > Paul Surgeon wrote: > > >I don't want to sound like someone who likes to nitpik but ... :) > > > >Is there any good reason to use PNGs for the thumbnails? > >There will be 60 aircraft thumbnails and we are averaging about 32K per > >thumbnail at the moment even with max PNG compression. > >That equates to nearly 2MB just for thumbnails. > >JPG can do it in 360K at 85% quality (average of 6KB per thumbnail) with no > >visual difference to the naked eye. > > > >I know PNG is lossless and JPG is evil because it's not LGPL but I think it's > >the right tool for the job (photos on web pages). > > > >Some of us don't have the luxury/option of high speed Internet connections > >and > >a 2MB web page takes 6 minutes to download on a 64K line. > > > >Paul > > > >On Monday, 17 January 2005 20:49, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > > > > > >>For the upcoming release of FG, I'm working on a couple scripts to > >>create/manage a web page for individual downloads. Here is where I'm at > >>so far. There is plenty room for improvement, but this will at least > >>get us started: > >> > >> http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/aircraft/ > >> > >>If aircraft developers put a 171x128 pixel image in the top aicraft > >>directory called "thumbnail.png", this will automatically get picked up > >>and put on the web page. There's no need to get these all populated > >>before the v0.9.8 image, but it would be great if people could start > >>filling thes in with nice pictures. The one's I created can be replaced > >>if someone comes up with something better. > >> > >>Aircraft developers can continue to use our base package cvs, or they > >>can maintain their files locally and submit a ready to install .tgz > >>package ... either way will work fine. > >> > >>As part of this, I hope to significantly trim down the default base > >>package. > >> > >>There are obvious areas of improvement such as categorizing the aircraft > >>and putting them in their own sections (and we should do that > >>eventually) but this at least is a workable starting point for this > >>release. > >> > >>Regards, > >> > >>Curt. > >> > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Flightgear-devel mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > >2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > > > > > > -- > Curtis Olson http://www.flightgear.org/~curt > HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ > FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org > Unique text: 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > -- <Arthur/> - http://artooro.blogspot.com (Weblog) - http://machcms.sourceforge.net (MachCMS Project) - http://acalproj.sourceforge.net (Calendar Project) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
