Gosh I'm so retarded sometimes - it seems I forgot to use an output file type of
N.  For some reason, I thought the PNG extension on the ouput base filename
would have been enough to tell POV what I wanted, but I guess one has to be
explicit (and read the docs!).

- T.I.M.


Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> 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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