On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Máirín Duffy wrote: > > Yeh, I did! With PNG crush I got the Inkscape-exported, 58KB png down to > 48KB and I couldn't squeeze it down anymore. :( > > The image (the (FC6 banner in the upper left) has a lot of gradients and > JPG compression would look a lot better for the size it's at now (~10k). > The previous version which was a jpg was only ~7k. I think there is some > way to squeeze PNGs down though for photographic/gradient artwork, but, > none of the FOSS tools I can find seem to do it. :( > Since JPEG is lossy and PNG is not, JPEG has a bit of an advantage in reducing image sizes. As was already pointed out, reducing bit depth helps. If you haven't already, give optipng a try. It's in our repositories. :-) -- Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes nman64@xxxxxxxxx http://n-man.com/ LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/nman64 Have I been helpful? Rate my assistance! http://rate.affero.net/nman64/ --
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