[Nepal] size of pngs compared to jpegs

[Sameer Verma]

Bryan Berry wrote:
> Pradosh,
>
> I have compared the size of the Flipbook/ dir w/ pngs to the old one w/
> jpegs.
>
> The dir w/ pngs totals 377 MB while the old one was only 340 MB.
>
> Did pngcrush not help that much?
>
>
>   

I've noticed that in PNG, if the layer information is intact, it tends 
to be large, but if you flatten the image (in GIMP, Image | Flatten 
Image) that usually helps. Flattening may remove transparency, though.  
Not sure if pngcrush is doing the same thing.

Sameer

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