On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:34:59PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Just out of curiousity, did you originally save it as a 24-bit or
> 8-bit PNG?  IIRC, GIFs are always 8-bit and 8-bit PNGs are comparable
> in size.  I can understand how a 24-bit PNG would be bigger, but I can't
> see how an 8-bit would be that much different in size.

The original image claims to be 8-bit... it's approximately 3 times the
size of the gif version.

  $ file cornscolio.*
  cornscolio.gif: GIF image data, version 89a, 788 x 1000
  cornscolio.png: PNG image data, 788 x 1000, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced

  $ ls -l cornscolio.*
  -rw-r--r--    1 adric    adric      263471 Nov  4 17:49 cornscolio.gif
  -rw-r--r--    1 adric    adric      743422 Nov  4 17:32 cornscolio.png


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