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Advdef can squeeze files even more.

Advdef can squeeze files even more.

Posted Oct 6, 2010 7:30 UTC (Wed) by gmatht (guest, #58961)
In reply to: PNG saving and optimization by mjr
Parent article: WebP, a new image format for the Web (The Chromium Blog)

"... size optimality isn't something that everyone pays a lot attention to."

Quite right. If they did, they would run "advdef -z -4" after optipng ;)

I can shave another 11k off header.png and 1k off lcorner.png using advdef. The KDE project uses a script "optimizegraphics" to run these two optimizations on their graphics files.


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Advdef can squeeze files even more.

Posted Oct 6, 2010 7:36 UTC (Wed) by johill (subscriber, #25196) [Link]

Well, maybe our esteemed editor needs to write an article on this, because otherwise nobody's going to even find the tools.... :-)

Note also that you may not always even be allowed to use advdef, because it appears to link to something called MAME, which states "Redistributions may not be sold, nor may they be used in a commercial product or activity." Thus I'd rather stay away from it.

Advdef can squeeze files even more.

Posted Oct 6, 2010 8:54 UTC (Wed) by jbh (subscriber, #494) [Link]

It's ok: it appears to be straight GPLv2, plus an exception allowing it to be linked with MAME.

http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc-license.html

http://advancemame.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/advancemame...

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