pngquant
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NAME
pngquant
- PNG converter and lossy image compressor
SYNOPSIS
Aq options
[ncolors]
file
[
file ...
]
Aq options
[ncolors]
-
< file
> file
DESCRIPTION
converts 32-bit RGBA PNGs to 8-bit (or smaller) RGBA-palette PNGs, optionally using Floyd-Steinberg dithering.
The output filename is the same as the input name except that it ends in
`-fs8.png'
or
`-or8.png'
(unless the input is stdin, in which case the quantized image will go to stdout).
The default behavior if the output file exists is to skip the conversion; use
-
-force
to overwrite.
OPTIONS
- -o out.png , --output out.png
-
Writes converted file to the given path. When this option is used only single input file is allowed.
- --ext new.png
-
File extension (suffix) to use for output files instead of the default
`-fs8.png'
or
`-or8.png'
- -f , --force
-
Overwrite existing output files.
Do --ext
.png
--force
Dc can be used to convert files in place (which is unsafe).
- --nofs , --ordered
-
Disable Floyd-Steinberg dithering.
- --floyd [=N
]
-
Set dithering level using fractional number between
0
(none) and
1
(full, the default).
- -s N , --speed N
-
1
(brute-force) to
11
(fastest). The default is
3
Speed
10
has 5% lower quality, but is about 8 times faster than the default. Speed 11 disables dithering and lowers compression level.
- -Q min-max , --quality min-max
-
min
and
max
are numbers in range
0
(worst) to
100
(perfect), similar to JPEG.
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 (or if outputting to stdin, 24-bit original will be output) and pngquant will exit with status code
Er 99 .
- --skip-if-larger
-
If conversion results in a file larger than the original, the image won't be saved and pngquant will exit with status code
Er 98 .
Additionally, file size gain must be greater than the amount of quality lost. If quality drops by 50%, it will expect 50% file size reduction to consider it worthwhile.
- --posterize bits
-
Truncate number of least significant bits of color (per channel). Use this when image will be output on low-depth displays (e.g. 16-bit RGB).
will make almost-opaque pixels fully opaque and will reduce amount of semi-transparent colors. When this option is enabled the default filename suffix is
`-ie-fs8.png'
/
`-ie-or8.png'
- --strip
-
Remove optional chunks (metadata) from PNG files.
- --transbug
-
Workaround for readers that expect fully transparent color to be the last entry in the palette.
- -v , --verbose
-
Enable verbose messages showing progress and information about input/output. Opposite is
--quiet
Errors are output to
stderr
regardless of this option.
- -V , --version
-
Display version on
stdout
and exit.
- -h , --help
-
Display help and exit.
EXAMPLE
Creating a new image with the number of colors reduced to 64:
64 image.png
The resulting image will have 64 colors and will be saved as
image-fs8.png
Overwriting image in-place if it can be reduced without too much quality loss:
-f --ext .png --quality 70-95 image.png
AUTHOR
is developed by Kornel Lesinski
Aq Mt
kornel@pngquant.org
based on code by Greg Roelofs
Aq Mt
newt@pobox.com .
Lk https://pngquant.org pngquant homepage .