On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:27:48 +0300, Gutza gutza@moongate.ro wrote:
That's true, but it can happily replace GIF's, it's actually smaller if compared on par (8-bit images).
Yes. Both PNG and GIF are lossless, and you can convert between them until the [[You have two cows|cows]] come home. Also, PNG compression is highly variable- you can generally compress an image better with PNG than with GIF, easily, if you tweak your compression (instead of accepting some 24-bit low-compression default). If you REALLY want to make a crack at it, run pngcrush or something similar with insane try-and-try-again compression. When the PNG is bigger, you're usually talking of file sizes too small to matter much anyway. :)