JPG - PNG conversion problem

[Raaijmakers, Vincent (GE Infrastructure)]

Yes I did.

image.depth = 8

But it didn't help, the 64k is the image file size having 256 colors.

Vincent

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Raaijmakers, Vincent (GE Infrastructure) wrote:
> Who can explain the huge increase in size when I convert a JPG into a PNG format using PythonMagick:
> I read the JPG from a video server and has a resolution of 352x240, size is about 15k
> After my PNG conversion and resizing the resolution to 160*120, the size is 64k!!


Is the output png a color palette image?  See if you can get acceptable 
results by limiting the color palette to 256 colors or so.

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