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[Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 30 August 2011 16:43, Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>

I'm going to be away from a keyboard for a few hours, so please just
post any preferences as to how you want to run the program on the png,
including command line options, etc. If you're easy, I'll just do
whatever seems most appropriate.

Best Regards,

Brian.