[magick-users] PNG/GIF Compression

[Anthony Thyssen]

Forest Hale on  wrote...
| Jon Perkin wrote:
| > I have found a solution: a little command-line utility called PNGOUT
| > which optimises PNG images but has the option to force an 8-bit palette.
| > PNGOUT gives me 8-bit output files that are smaller than the 4-bit input
| > files I created using Image Magick. Thanks to Ken Silverman for PNGOUT.
| > 
| > Cheers, Jon.
| 
| Ken Silverman made a deflate optimizer?  Fun :)
| 
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Shame Ken hasn't added it to the zip compression for GIF format :-)

He could go even further to include LZW Compresson Optimizations for GIF
Animations...
   http://imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_opt/anim_opt/#opt_lzw

It sounds like something that is right up his alley.

  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    <A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au>
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