pngcrush
8th February 2003
Mark invoked the lazy web earlier today in a bid to find a good way of bulk optimizing PNG files. Several people recommended pngcrush in the comments and it sounds like a fantastically useful piece of software—apparently it can run 114 different lossless compression methods on an image and automatically chose the most efficient one.
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