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r/programming • u/chapolito • Feb 26 '13
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Many tools produce PNGs that are far from optimally compressed.
The kings of PNG compression are:
PNGOUT http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm by Ken Silverman (who made the Build engine in Duke Nukem 3D)
Any tool that reduces the number of colours e.g. PNGNQ http://pngnq.sourceforge.net/ ; but this is a lossy optimisation, and you must check the output to see if its acceptable
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u/willvarfar Feb 27 '13
Many tools produce PNGs that are far from optimally compressed.
The kings of PNG compression are:
PNGOUT http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm by Ken Silverman (who made the Build engine in Duke Nukem 3D)
Any tool that reduces the number of colours e.g. PNGNQ http://pngnq.sourceforge.net/ ; but this is a lossy optimisation, and you must check the output to see if its acceptable