On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:27:48 +0300, Gutza <gutza(a)moongate.ro> wrote:
That's true, but it can happily replace GIF's,
it's actually smaller if
compared on par (8-bit images).
Yes. Both PNG and GIF are lossless, and you can convert between them
until the [[You have two cows|cows]] come home. Also, PNG compression
is highly variable- you can generally compress an image better with
PNG than with GIF, easily, if you tweak your compression (instead of
accepting some 24-bit low-compression default). If you REALLY want to
make a crack at it, run pngcrush or something similar with insane
try-and-try-again compression. When the PNG is bigger, you're usually
talking of file sizes too small to matter much anyway. :)