On Sep 2, 8:59 pm, "kiithsa...@gmail.com" <kiithsa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello people, > > I started to work on a small Python script to simplify mass conversion > of images for a website I was working on. > I eventually got interested in the script more than the site istelf, > and it got a lot bigger, so I released it as an opensource project > > It's licensed under BSD and not very polished yet, but I think I > reached a point where it's at least partially usable. > It should run on most Unixes but it's not compatible with Windows > (using unix shell). > > IMGCrush (as it's called) tries to save given image (or images, it can > process directories of images as well) > with the smallest possible filesize, so it works similarly to pngcrush > and other png optimizers, with the exception that it can also save to > GIF, JPG, PNG, and user can specify image quality loss he/she can > tolerate. > > The way it's used is that the user for instance specfies that he/she > wants an image with smallest possible size with at least 99% quality > or the highest quality image with 50% of size of input, etc. (there > are also other ways to measure quality/size). > Quality isn't measured in a very "human" way now, which will hopefully > change in future. > IMGCrush is also quite slow at the moment, and will probably never be > fast, but it can be a lot faster than it is now. > > Project is hosted at Launchpad: > Homepage link:https://launchpad.net/icrush > Downloads: https://launchpad.net/icrush/+download > > Use at your own risk :-) > run "imgcrush --help" for usage instructions. > > Criticism/ideas/whatever is welcome. > > -Kiith-Sa
Requires ImageMagick and Python (coded in python 2.x, I'm running 2.6 but it might run on older python as well) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list