[Bf-docboard] Optimizing images (to Stefano)

[Stefano Selleri]

Hehe, OK, so let's give this a try!

You can start with images in Part I (Chapters 1 to 4)
mail them to me when ready!

Please note that these PNG have a resolution wich should not be altered :)

Stefano
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Omar Modesto" <viernes_trece at hotmail.com>
To: <bf-docboard at projects.blender.org>
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 8:56 PM
Subject: [Bf-docboard] Optimizing images (to Stefano)


> Optimizing images is just a matter or increasing the compression of PNG
> images. These optimized images can be up to 1/3 of their original file
size.
> No quality is lost, just better lossless compression. That would really
> reduce page load times for people reading the manual online, and download
> times for people who download the whole thing. There are apps for
optimizing
> images (OptiPNG, pngcrush, pngout, advpng/advdeflate), but I thought no
one
> else in the documentation project had time for that, so I thought it would
> be a nice thing to do.
>
> Now, about JPEG images...they can be optimized by removing useless chunks
of
> data that have nothing to do with image(color) data. The compression
> increase is not much (1%-6%).
>
> Oh...and how would I go about submitting stuff via e-mail? Just attach the
> images to the e-mail and send them?
>
> Again, thanks.
>
> Omar
>
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