Re: Xcode4.5's version of pngcrush making images larger!
Re: Xcode4.5's version of pngcrush making images larger!
- Subject: Re: Xcode4.5's version of pngcrush making images larger!
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:01:57 -0400
Yup. You should check out the notes for Xcode on image option.com.
I can see why they might want to do this, but it doesn't really help much in many cases with the balance between file size and unpacking performance. What % larger are you seeing?
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On Oct 1, 2012, at 12:08 PM, David Hoerl <email@hidden> wrote:
> It turns out that when you enable the Xcode 'Crush PNG Files', it actually expands them! Virtually every file in my app bundle got larger.
>
> 'pngcrush' is included in Xcode.app, and by fussing around I was able to see it get called with a '-iphone' option (it's only run for iOS builds).
>
> So the way to reduce your image sizes now is to disable that checkbox!
>
> I can only assume that 'pngcrush -iphone' does some png formatting to make the images load faster, not to crush them to as small a file as possible. Or, is this bug?
>
> David
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