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Re: optimizing PNGs



On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
> A while ago, someone raised the possibility of recompressing PNG files.
> Unlike xz, this would save space not only on mirrors but also on live
> installed systems.  PNGs are nearly incompressible so this is mostly
> independent from xz.
>
> At least by number, there's a lot of PNG images:
[...]
>   22225 ns3-doc

This one is slightly different and should be treated differently IMHO.
See `Subject: Ridiculously large packages`[1] on debian-cd, which got
solved using SVG output when generating doxygen documentation. See for
example:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557238

2cts
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2009/11/msg00039.html


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