Just tried recreating Default-Landscape@2x~ipad.crushed from the original icon, with a solid gray background - png is 82KB.
KILL THE GRADIENT. On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Patrick Mueller (JIRA) <j...@apache.org>wrote: > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1495?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13476424#comment-13476424] > > Patrick Mueller commented on CB-1495: > ------------------------------------- > > I agree with Jesse's comments on the m/l. Gradients. KILL. > > Or ... I just tried using Acorn to save as a JPG (do they support JPEG?). > At 80% quality, compressed to 134KB. Looked pretty good to me! > > If they don't support JPEG, I wonder if switching from a 24-bit to 8-bit > PNG would help. Looks like I can get that down to about 240KB, but ... > artifact-y. > > I'd vote to just kill the gradients. Next point release (not 2.2). > > > iOS default splash screen images take up several megabytes > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Key: CB-1495 > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1495 > > Project: Apache Cordova > > Issue Type: Bug > > Components: iOS > > Affects Versions: 2.0.0 > > Environment: iOS, XCode 4.5, Cordova 2.0.0 > > Reporter: Brion Vibber > > Assignee: Shazron Abdullah > > Priority: Minor > > Labels: splashscreen > > Fix For: 2.2.0 > > > > Attachments: crushed.zip > > > > > > The default splash screen images for iOS are quite large; the Retina > iPad images are 1.5 megabytes for each orientation! > > $ ls -lh > > total 8680 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 brion staff 1.5M Sep 17 15:18 Default-Landscape@2x > ~ipad.png > > -rw-r--r-- 1 brion staff 413K Sep 17 15:18 Default-Landscape~ipad.png > > -rw-r--r-- 1 brion staff 1.5M Sep 17 15:18 Default-Portrait@2x > ~ipad.png > > -rw-r--r-- 1 brion staff 412K Sep 17 15:18 Default-Portrait~ipad.png > > -rw-r--r-- 1 brion staff 342K Sep 17 15:18 Default@2x~iphone.png > > -rw-r--r-- 1 brion staff 92K Sep 17 15:18 Default~iphone.png > > They should probably be recompressed to be a bit smaller; the gradients > in the background may be at issue. > > -- > This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA > administrators > For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira > -- Patrick Mueller http://muellerware.org
