RE: [PHP] Re: photo file size
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:11:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Re: photo file size | ||
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On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 11:57 -0500, Boyd, Todd M. wrote:
>
> I was under the impression that .png files were "lossless"? Maybe I'm wrong...
> but the .png files I manipulate in a few of my projects are almost always larger than their
> other-format counterparts. I've only used .png in the past when transparency and lossless-ness
> (a new word!) are factors.
Yes, I think it is lossless, but you have control over the strength of
the compression applied. I think PNG uses numbers between and and 9 to
indicate compression level. 9 takes more CPU power.
Chees,
Rob.
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