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Pngquant

pngquant is a command-line utility and a library for lossy compression of PNG images.

The conversion reduces file sizes significantly (often as much as 70%) and preserves full alpha transparency. Generated images are compatible with all web browsers and operating systems.

You can install it with:

wapm install -g pngquant

This is the official pngquant repository. The compression engine is also available as an embeddable library.

Usage

  • batch conversion of multiple files: pngquant *.png
  • Unix-style stdin/stdout chaining: … | pngquant - | …

Features

  • High-quality palette generation
  • advanced quantization algorithm with support for gamma correction and premultiplied alpha
  • unique dithering algorithm that does not add unnecessary noise to the image
  • Configurable quality level
  • automatically finds required number of colors and can skip images which can't be converted with the desired quality
  • Fast, modern code

Options

See pngquant -h for full list.

--quality min-max

min and max are numbers in range 0 (worst) to 100 (perfect), similar to JPEG. pngquant will use the least amount of colors required to meet or exceed the max quality. If conversion results in quality below the min quality the image won't be saved (if outputting to stdin, 24-bit original will be output) and pngquant will exit with status code 99.

pngquant --quality=65-80 image.png

--ext new.png

Set custom extension (suffix) for output filename. By default -or8.png or -fs8.png is used. If you use --ext=.png --force options pngquant will overwrite input files in place (use with caution).

-o out.png or --output out.png

Writes converted file to the given path. When this option is used only single input file is allowed.

--skip-if-larger

Don't write converted files if the conversion isn't worth it.

--speed N

Speed/quality trade-off from 1 (slowest, highest quality, smallest files) to 11 (fastest, less consistent quality, light comperssion). The default is 4. It's recommended to keep the default, unless you need to generate images in real time (e.g. map tiles). Higher speeds are fine with 256 colors, but don't handle lower number of colors well.

--nofs

Disables Floyd-Steinberg dithering.

--floyd=0.5

Controls level of dithering (0 = none, 1 = full). Note that the = character is required.

--posterize bits

Reduce precision of the palette by number of bits. Use when the image will be displayed on low-depth screens (e.g. 16-bit displays or compressed textures in ARGB444 format).

--strip

Don't copy optional PNG chunks. Metadata is always removed on Mac (when using Cocoa reader).

See man page (man pngquant) for the full list of options.

Build

This version of pngquant is built using v2.8.0 of pngquant. Original configure script needs to be patched in order to be used by emscripten. Patched version of this file is present in the deps folder in this directory. Additionally, patch file for configure script is also present in the repository in order to create a fresh copy. Build script assumes that emscripten is already built and available in the system path. Once this is ensured, just run ./build.sh which will initiate build process and pngquant. will be available in dist folder.

License

pngquant is dual-licensed:

Lossy PNG compressor


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