On 07/12/10 12:55, Matthias Melcher wrote:

>> Maybe we can compress the .png files better; I used 'convert' w/o
>> any options to convert them. Suggestions ?

ISTR that the standard PNG tarball includes a number of tools, one of 
which is a program that, when fed a given PNG image, will try and find 
the best options for that image by brute-force, i.e. it just sits in a 
loop re-compressing the image over and over with different options until 
it finds the best combination.

It's a long time since I used it - it did work, but didn't reduce the 
files by all that much (though I am told that with the right image the 
savings can be dramatic) and it took a *very* long time to run... 
Computers have got faster in the meantime too, of course!

> png is just a wrapper for different compression algorithms. Most png images 
> use jpeg compression internally.

Is that true? I don't think that is true - PNG is lossless and IIRC uses 
ZLIB internally.
The JPEG format is (usually) lossy, and the lossless variant doesn't 
compress well.

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