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28 Jul 2024 16:15:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Why aren't my PNGs compressed?  
From: Warp
Date: 16 Jun 2008 13:23:09
Message: <4856a17d@news.povray.org>
this is me <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I'm doing animation, and I switched from saving my frames as BMPs to PNGs
> because I thought compression would occur.  After looking at the file output
> size, though, they're all the same, and match that of a BMP.  Did I fail to
> turn something on?  Is it because the windows version doesn't do compressed
> PNGs?

  First you should check that the images are actually compressible.
Open one such image with some program (such as the gimp) and save it
to another PNG with normal compression and see if the result is indeed
smaller.

  Which command-line option did you use to output to PNG?

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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