After installing OOo 2.0.2RC1, I was keen to play with IconSwitching and check out the 'crystal' theme. I was surprised to see the image archives now weigh in at 18MB- ouch! But this is good: just as I was losing faith in my hacking efforts, I was reassured that they are a useful contribution.
I've also noticed that jimmac has a CWS set aside for producing a Tango theme for OOo3.0 - cool! I really like the Tango set, but alas the png files are unoptimized. When (/If?) I get my icon audit finished, I might try and give Tango some TLC.
Development of pngcrush has started again, so it will be interesting to see if it can reclaim it's crown from optipng.
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PNGOUTWin (based on PNGOUT) has improved its algorithms recently. Check out the new Xtreme strategy.
Cheers.
I've been evaluating it, but so far I've found some problems (mem leaks, corrupt images). Although it does indeed improve compression by ~2% for some images. The real benefit is the handy GUI and significant time benefit when running brute force trials.
PNGOUTWin (POW) is now approaching release and things have been fixed up nicely. This may well prove to be the ultimate png optimization tool. Looking foward to giving this a thorough trial in the future.
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