On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 07:42:49PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: >> > A while ago, someone raised the possibility of recompressing PNG files. >> > Unlike xz, this would save space not only on mirrors but also on live >> > installed systems. PNGs are nearly incompressible so this is mostly >> > independent from xz. >> > >> > At least by number, there's a lot of PNG images: >> [...] >> > 22225 ns3-doc >> >> This one is slightly different and should be treated differently IMHO. >> See `Subject: Ridiculously large packages`[1] on debian-cd, which got >> solved using SVG output when generating doxygen documentation. > > Formats other than PNG might be more appropriate, yes. > >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557238 > > This one (vtk-doc) doesn't compress PNGs, but reduces their quality in a > lossy way to 256 colours. And in this case, using optipng+advpng would > reduce the files by more than a half (comparing sizes of .tar.xz).
True there are remainings PNGs in vtk-docs, as explained before, those are latex equation. I believe it would be even nicer when doxygen would support better latex support and would generate something other than a poor-man solution of PNGs for equations. 2cts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CA+7wUszQxvSF_t0Ef7Jr2sUC0w9ek=3vj9nercfwgswtrsw...@mail.gmail.com
