Size of button images

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Fri Jul 20 07:25:10 PDT 2007


riopedre.tiscali wrote:
> I'm working in Spanish translation of CUPS (version 1.3b1).
> 
> I had tested new script to generate 'automagically' buttons images few months ago and I want to use it for the new version now. But I have seen that the size of the files generated by this script has grown a lot. I have compared original buttons (in English) with new buttons generated by this script. Here we have a few examples:
> 
> button-accept-jobs.gif             527 bytes (original) 1332 bytes (new)
> button-add-class.gif               484 bytes             838 bytes
> ..
> button-view-printable-version.gif  743 bytes            1592 bytes
> All the files (55)                66.7 KBytes           31.0 KBytes
> 
> I have seen that original images have 32 colors palette and new images have 256.
> 
> Is this feature intentional?

No, but probably a side-effect of ImageMagick's GIF writer.
Perhaps we can use another tool to re-compress the GIFs after
procesing?  Or maybe send a feature request to the ImageMagick
folks to optimize their GIF output?

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