Compressing images without compressing quality

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Wed Jun 14 14:41:56 UTC 2006


At 4:01 PM +0300 6/14/06, peter kostov wrote:
>On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 12:08 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
>> On 6/14/06, Ben Lancaster <lists at benlancaster.co.uk> wrote:
>> > >> some tool to automatically crop images. Any suggestions?
>> > >
>> > > Gimp scripting is what you're looking for.
>> >
>> > ...or ImageMagick and a bash script if you felt that way inclined.
>>
>> Thanks for all suggestions. pngcrush seems quite effective!
>>
>> Paul
>>
>This is an exellent script I found on the web, that really compresses
>png files:
>###########
>#!/bin/bash
>
># create backup copy
>cp $1 $1.orig
>#convert the image to indexed
>convert -quality 0 +dither -colors 256 $1.orig $1
 ...

Lossy!

Very lossy!
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