Subject: Re: GIF -> PNG in help files
From: Aaron Lehmann (aaronl@vitelus.com)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2000 - 11:39:49 CDT
I wanted to sugest this awhile ago. It also gets us points for boyvotting
Unisys :). I'd say go for it.
Aaron Lehmann
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 bob@abisource.com wrote:
> When we went from AbiWord 0.7.9 to 0.7.10, the size of the setup program increased from 1.2M to 3.2M on Windows, and similarly on Linux.
>
> My suggestion to reduce this size would be to change all GIF files in the help system to PNGs. Typically the PNGs will be much smaller, and this should save lots of download time for users.
>
> Does anyone have any objections if this starts happening in the tree?
>
> Robert Sievers
> Opne Source Evangelist
>
>
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