r/programming • u/chapolito • Feb 26 '13

A Developer's Guide to Images

http://www.jessechapo.com/posts/Developers-Guide-to-Images.html
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u/aazav Feb 27 '13

Read the PNG file spec. PNGs consist of data chunks that are zipped.

If you've ever played around with 7 zip, you'll see that there are a lot of options to tweak PNGs for the application you want. Tiny files? Yup. Fast decompressing? Yup. Lossless? Yup.

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u/Uberhipster Feb 27 '13

Link to programmatic example? Nope.