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Re: RFS: pngquant - PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image optimising utility



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Hi!

|>* Package name    : pngquant
|>  Version         : 1.0
|>  Upstream Author : Greg Roelofs <newt@pobox.com>
|>* URL             : http://freshmeat.net/projects/pngquant/
|>* License         : BSD
|>  Description     : PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image optimising
|>utility
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|>It's linda and lintian clean.
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|>Available at http://biolinux.df.ibilce.unesp.br/naoliv/pngquant/
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| How does this compare to pngcrush?

Optimizers (like pngcrush) optimize the compression, usually losslessly.
pngquant quantizes colors down to 256 (or fewer) distinct RGBA
combinations, which is quite lossy.  They're very different applications.

Nelson
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