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Offline Waccoon

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Re: GIF/LZW Patent expires in europe
« on: May 19, 2004, 06:19:38 AM »
Ho hum.  I'm moving my whole website to PNG images, now that I finally can save PNG files smaller than GIFs.

I doubt PNG will become any more popular until Photoshop support of the format stops sucking.  I mean, the average PNG saved in Photoshop is still loads bigger than any GIF.  What the hell is Adobe's problem?!  Then again, aftermarket plugins aren't much better.  I have the SuperPNG plugin for Photoshop from Fnord, and the files it produces are still too damn big even with the metadata stripped out!

PngOut by Ken Silverman is a godsend for web authors.  Ken Silverman ROCKS, and I'm surprised a person with his intuition isn't working for some megacorp.  I wish someone could make a GUI version , though (PNG Gauntlet is a .NET front-end for PngOut, but it's too damn buggy and more trouble than it's worth).