jpg vs png

[Máirín Duffy]

Hey Nicu!

Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Máirín Duffy wrote:
>>
>> It seems reasonable to support PNG anyway as its a standard format, so 
>> let's see how small gimp will let me squeeze them down in PNG format.
> 
> What you already do (convert PNG to indexed) is very effective in 
> reducing the file size.
> 
> Have you played with pngcrush (or something similar) to reduce the size 
> even more? (unfortunately, we don't have a yummable package for pngcrush)

Yeh, I did! With PNG crush I got the Inkscape-exported, 58KB png down to 
48KB and I couldn't squeeze it down anymore. :(

The image (the (FC6 banner in the upper left) has a lot of gradients and 
JPG compression would look a lot better for the size it's at now (~10k). 
The previous version which was a jpg was only ~7k. I think there is some 
way to squeeze PNGs down though for photographic/gradient artwork, but, 
none of the FOSS tools I can find seem to do it. :(

~m