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by account42 200 days ago
> .png is lossless

pngquant and similar tools disagree

2 comments

Well yeah, you can turn any lossless format lossy by introducing an intermediate step that discards some amount of information. You can't practically turn a lossy format into a lossless format by introducing a lossless intermediate step.

Although, if you're purely speaking perceptually, magic like RAISR comes pretty close.

pngquant does the lossy conversion, not the PNG format.