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[Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 30 August 2011 16:00, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/30/2011 06:06 AM, fabrizio wrote:
>> this seems to solve the issue (seems also to reduce the size of each
>> .png from 2k to 1.7k...)
>>
>> ./pngout in.png -k0 out.png
>>
>> http://www.jonof.id.au/kenutils
>>
>> I hope it helps
>> cheers
>> fabrizio
>>
>
> RE: PNGOUT
>
> *NOTE:* The source code to these tools is not being made public at this time.
>
> I don't think this fair to the OSX builder.  We need a procedure that works on
> all 3 platforms, don't we.
>
> Inkscape is available on OSX, no?
>
> I've looked into about 7 tools the other day.  My guess is that someone needs to
> step up and write one or create a patch to pngcrush.

I looked up the PNG file format. I will write a program to strip this
information out. The PNG data structure is very easy to deal with.

I will write it later on tonight, and post it to the list.

Best Regards,

Brian.