On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Máirín Duffy wrote:
Yeh, I did! With PNG crush I got the Inkscape-exported, 58KB png down to 48KB and I couldn't squeeze it down anymore. :(
The image (the (FC6 banner in the upper left) has a lot of gradients and JPG compression would look a lot better for the size it's at now (~10k). The previous version which was a jpg was only ~7k. I think there is some way to squeeze PNGs down though for photographic/gradient artwork, but, none of the FOSS tools I can find seem to do it. :(
Since JPEG is lossy and PNG is not, JPEG has a bit of an advantage in reducing image sizes. As was already pointed out, reducing bit depth helps. If you haven't already, give optipng a try. It's in our repositories. :-)