[Kde-games-devel] Better compression of carddecks

[Andy Goossens]

On Saturday 16 February 2002 12:35, Ralf Schmelter wrote:
> Hello!
>
> A while ago there was a discussion if some of the carddecks should be
> removed from kdegames in order to save some space. A second option would
> be to compress the png images better. Most of the pngs (apart from the
> default deck) are not indexed, but RGB images, without really needing more
> than 256 colors. So I've converted all png images in the carddecks
> directory via GIMP to indexed pngs, saved with maximum compression. This
> results in huge savings of space (over 2.5 megabytes), without noticable
> artefacts. Even the default deck was further compressed. You can get the
> compressed versions at
> http://ganter.chemie.uni-dortmund.de/~ralfs/carddecks.tar.bz2

They look good to me at first sight. Why didn't we do this earlier? :-)

> And while a haven't looked at other graphics used in kdegames and other
> packages, I'm quite sure there are other graphics which can be compressed
> further. Maybe it's worthwhile to take a look at them too.

That would be a great idea. More room for other games...