http://www.pither.com/articles/2007/05/03/png-compression en-us 40 by Simon Pither, freelance developer and systems administrator <p>Having failed to find the option in <a href="http://www.gimp.org/">the GIMP</a> to create colour mapped PNG files, I have just had to discover a couple of handy commands...</p> <p>pngnq - tool for optimizing PNG (Portable Network Graphics) images pngcrush - optimizes PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files</p> <p>The first of these takes a RGB PNG and gives back a colour mapped (by default, 256 colours) image.</p> <p>The second takes those images (or RGB format ones too) and crushes them by about 20% (on the images I have been using today).</p> <p>So the 22k file that GIMP created is now about 9k!</p> Thu, 03 May 2007 12:28:40 +0000 urn:uuid:342d14d9-4cca-4509-8cc0-d15d6cdff7a1 Simon http://www.pither.com/articles/2007/05/03/png-compression work graphics png