Reducing Image File Size

[Net Llama!]

On 03/27/04 07:18, Joel Hammer wrote:
> What is the proper way, using convert (ImageMagick package)
> to reduce the file size of an image without changing its
> dimensions and maintaining a decent resolution.
> 
> I notice that when I publish my very large ppt's and
> staroffice presentations to PDF, the PDF is about 1/10th
> the size of the ppt or staroffice presentation.

Depends on the type of image.  I'm not too familiar with convert, but i 
didn't think its capable of reducing filesizes.  pngcrush will do that 
for PNGs.  I'm not aware of any way of doing it for any other image formats.

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