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updated cdrtools (3.00 -> 3.02a09)
author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Thu Feb 14 13:10:09 2019 +0100 (2019-02-14) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/pngrewrite/description.txt Thu Feb 14 13:10:09 2019 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ 1.4 +Pngrewrite is command-line utility that reduces the unnecessarily large 1.5 +palettes that some programs write into PNG files. It also optimizes 1.6 +transparency data, and reduces the bits-per-pixel if possible. Handy for 1.7 +post-processing PNG files before putting them on a web site. 1.8 + 1.9 +Pngrewrite will: 1.10 + 1.11 + * Remove any unused palette entries, and write a palette that is only as large 1.12 + as needed. 1.13 + * Remove (collapse) any duplicate palette entries. 1.14 + * Convert non-palette image to palette images, provided they contain no more 1.15 + than 256 different colors. 1.16 + * Move any colors with transparency to the beginning of the palette, and write 1.17 + a tRNS chunk that is a small as possible. 1.18 + * Reduce the bit-depth (bits per pixel) as much as possible. 1.19 + * Write images as grayscale when possible, if that is compatible with the goal 1.20 + of using the minimum possible bit depth. 1.21 + 1.22 +Under no circumstances does pngrewrite change the actual pixel colors, or 1.23 +background color, or transparency of the image. If it ever does, that's a bug. 1.24 + 1.25 +--WARNING-- 1.26 + 1.27 +pngrewrite removes most extra (ancillary) information from the PNG file, such 1.28 +as text comments. Although this does make the file size smaller, the removed 1.29 +information may sometimes be important. 1.30 + 1.31 +The only ancillary chunks that are NOT removed are: 1.32 + 1.33 + * gAMA - Image gamma setting 1.34 + * sRGB - srgb color space indicator 1.35 + * tIME - creation time 1.36 + * pHYs - physical pixel size 1.37 + * bKGD and tRNS - Background color and transparency are maintained. The 1.38 + actual chunk may be modified according to the new color structure. 1.39 + 1.40 +If the original image was interlaced, the new one will also be interlaced. 1.41 + 1.42 +Pngrewrite will not work at all on images that have more than 256 colors. 1.43 +Colors with the same RGB values but a different level of transparency count as 1.44 +different colors. The background color counts as an extra color if it does not 1.45 +occur in the image. 1.46 + 1.47 +It will also not work at all on images that have a color depth of 16 bits, 1.48 +since they cannot have a palette. 1.49 + 1.50 +----------------- 1.51 + 1.52 +This is a very inefficient program. It is (relatively) slow, and may use a lot 1.53 +of memory. To be specific, it uses about 5 bytes per pixel, no matter what the 1.54 +bit depth of the image is. 1.55 + 1.56 +This program is (hopefully) reasonably portable, and should compile without too 1.57 +much effort on most C compilers. It requires the libpng and zlib libraries. 1.58 + 1.59 +The pngrewrite code is structured as a library that could be used in other 1.60 +applications, but I have not documented the interface. 1.61 + 1.62 +----------------- 1.63 + 1.64 +How to use: 1.65 + 1.66 +From a command-line, run 1.67 + 1.68 + pngrewrite.exe <input-file.png> <output-file.png> 1.69 + 1.70 +To read from standard-input, or write to standard-output, use "-" for the 1.71 +filename.