Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : minuimus Version : 3.5.1 Upstream Author : Codebird aka CorvusRidiculissimus <codeb...@birds-are-nice.me> * URL : https://birds-are-nice.me/software/minuimus.html * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C, Perl Description : file optimiser utility script
Minuimus is a file optimiser utility script: You point it at a file, and it makes the file smaller without compromising the file contents. File optimisers are able to do this using a variety of file-specfic optimisations, most of which involve decompressing data within a compressed file and recompressing it in a more efficient manner. The process could be compared directly to extracting a ZIP file, then recompressing it at the most demanding setting. It uses many of the same techniques used by other optimisers such as Papa's Best Optimizer. The exact space saving achieved by this level of file optimisation is highly dependent upon the file being optimised. As is expected for any file optimiser, even after extensive testing, the results are too inconsistent to easily quantify. A collection of PDF files sampled from the-eye.eu was reduced in size to 90% of the input, while a half-terabyte sample taken from the archive.org 'computermagazine' collection was reduced with greater success to 78% of the input size. A collection of epub files from Project Gutenberg was reduced to a mere 95%, as these files are light on images, and ZIP files with no files inside which can be recursively optimised are reduced only very slightly, typically to around 97%.
