[ubuntu-art] Recompressing PNGs to save space?

Mark Shuttleworth mark at canonical.com
Tue Apr 25 01:00:23 BST 2006


Frank Schoep wrote:
> I used a simple "find" statement and a Bash script to copy over all PNG images 
> in the default installation and recompressed all these images using a 
> combination of PNGRewrite, OptiPNG and AdvancePNG to see if there was any 
> space to be saved, the results of the recompression are as follows:
>   

Frank, for the record, this is the COOLEST BIT OF HACKERY I've seen in
days. Great work! I'll forward to ubuntu-devel for discussion there too.

Mark
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