Bug#283960: RFP: pngquant -- PNG image optimising utility (make PNGs 2-3 times smaller)
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : pngquant
Version : 1.0
Upstream Author : Greg Roelofs <newt@pobox.dot.com>
* URL : http://freshmeat.net/projects/pngquant/
* License : BSD
Description : PNG image optimising utility (make PNGs 2-3 times smaller)
pngquant is a command-line* utility to quantize and dither 32-bit RGBA
PNGs down to 8-bit (or smaller) RGBA-palette PNGs, usually with a
significant reduction in file size. (Other PNG image types, even
colormapped images, may also be processed, but they will first be
expanded to RGBA, which isn't the most efficient way to do so.) This
is the same technique used for many of the images on the Miscellaneous
Transparent PNGs page, and the results are often indistinguishable
from the original, truecolor PNG images.
Version 1.0 supports batch processing (i.e., wildcard multifile
capability: ``pngquant 256 *.png''), palette (tRNS) optimization, and
Unix-style filter operation (e.g., ``make_RGBA_png | pngquant 48 |
some_other_command''), and it compiles and runs on both Linux and
Win32 without obvious problems. The only difference from the previous
release, 0.95, is the addition of a clean target to the Unix makefile.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
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