summary:

PNG image optimising utility

description:

A command-line conversion utility to quantize and dither truecolor PNG images, especially those with a full alpha channel, down to 8-bit (or smaller) RGBA-palette PNGs. Such images are usually two to four times smaller than the full 32-bit versions, and partial transparency is preserved quite nicely. This makes pngquant especially useful both for Web sites and for PlayStation 2 development, where one of the texture formats is RGBA-palette-based (though not PNG-compressed). This is the same technique used for many of the images on the Miscellaneous Transparent PNGs page (http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngs-img.html), and the results are often indistinguishable from the original, truecolor PNG images.

categories:

Graphics

depends:

liblcms2_2, libpng16

source package:

pngquant

maintainer(s):

Jari Aalto (Use the mailing list to report bugs or ask questions. Do not contact the maintainer(s) directly.)

readme:

pngquant.README