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adzm
154 days ago
Do you mean lossless? PNGs are not lossy. A large photo with alpha channel in a lossless png could easily be 20x the size of a lossy webp
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archerx
154 days ago
No I meant lossy. This is the library I use;
https://pngquant.org/
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thunderfork
154 days ago
Pre-processing does not a codec make (this is why .gif is considered lossless even though you lose all that 24-bit colour goodness)
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archerx
154 days ago
Fair enough but it gets the job done well none the less.
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Semaphor
154 days ago
PNG of course can be lossy. They aren’t great at it, but depending on the image can be good enough.
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