And there is all the metadata that tends to get
jumbled/warped/damaged/lost. That is another risk that has to be taken into
account when processing originals to be stored in another format.
DJ
On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 3:28 AM Dmitry Brant wrote:
> It is true that the PNG format doesn't offer
It is true that the PNG format doesn't offer the absolute best compression
- no one would claim it does. What it does offer is ultimate compatibility
-- it's viewable on nearly every browser and device ever made, which is
more important than disk usage.
When ImageMagick converts from PNG to XPM,
Generally disk space is cheap enough that doing these sorts of things
aren't worth the extra complexity, especially when we just have to convert
it back to png in order to serve it to the user at the end of the day.
LZMA is a more advanced compression algorithm than DEFLATE (which is what
png
