GIF89A and PIL

[garabik-news-2005-05 at kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk]

Harishankar <v.harishankar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Just opening, and then saving the same file with no changes at all,
>> resulted in a 72 byte file growing to 920.
>> 
>> I thought it was GIF87a vs GIF89a... but have since come to determine it
>> doesn't appear to be. I decided to give PNG a try again, since those
>> extra 50 bytes *matter*, but if I can't get GIF to work, 50 is better
>> then 900. Unfortunately, I hit the same wall there.
>> 
 
> Also try the pngcrush utility and see what size it gives you.
> http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/
>

optipng gives slightly better results. 

Anyway, depending on your pictures, you might find out that using
*.ppm.gz, *.pgm.gz or *.pbm.gz outperforms both optimised gif ad png...
and if sending more pictures down the line, tar-ing them (*.p?m) and
compressing the result will give even better sizes.


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