Re: pngquant

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:

> It's good to specify the difference between this PNG optimizer and other
> optimizers available.
Yes.

> Since PNG is getting very used (I see a lot of programs having the
> default output as PNG and not GIF, JPG, TIFF, etc), could be very useful
> having a program to makes some PNG file smaller.
I used Gimp to do this with some PNGs for presentations, but a program
which does this automagically would be very welcome.

> pngcrunsh and pngquant, IMHO, should be included on med-imaging. If not
> on Depends, at least on Recommends.
I think a recommends might be the right way to go.

> pngquant is already on NEW queue (it?s more than 1 month there). Philipp
:-(

> One thing that I don't know is why some packages take so long time to be
> processed. Some programs stay only 1 day on NEW queue, while others stay
> months there...
There was certain trouble with NEW queue until some weeks ago but it was
done now very quickly and this should be the default procedure for the
next time.

Please remind me in private mail if the program is included.

Kind regards

          Andreas.

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