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In some cases it might be good to keep the files as small as possible and 24 BPP is not needed, sometimes 8 BPP or 4 BPP are enough.
Is there a way to save PNGs with reduced color depth? Just curious...
Of course, I could use another program afterwards to reduce the color depth.
PNG export, reduce color depth BPP<24 ?
PNG export, reduce color depth BPP<24 ?
Win7/64, Inkscape 0.92.2
Re: PNG export, reduce color depth BPP<24 ?
There's no setting within Inkscape that would allow for that, no. Imagemagick could be used to make an extension do this, though.
Btw. I like pngquant a lot, it does a great job of reducing file size without visible differences.
Btw. I like pngquant a lot, it does a great job of reducing file size without visible differences.
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