Last year I asked a friend of mine to make a GUI for an dos application called Pngquant. A few weeks ago a got an comment about updating the GUI so I asked my friend Per if he help me out. When he was done we also decided to give the GUI a name, Manfred. Manfred is my third name if you ask. The only thing that is added to this version is “ordered” option. This helps the PNG image to look a bit better but also makes it smaller (KB). When we released the first version there was no GUI for keeping an 8 bits (256 colours) image with full transparency. Now, this feature has been added in the release of Fireworks 8. I made some tests to compare the programs. If you have Fireworks I think you should that program, it does make the image look better but a bit larger. Otherwise, Manfred (Pngquant really) will do the work quite nicely.
- The post about the pngquant GUI
- Fireworks versus pngquant (do not work for IE)
## Install instructions
- Download the GUI and unzip it somewhere
- Download Pngquant from the their site. (Windows binaries)
- Download .net runtime environment from MS. (you might already have this)
- Put the Pngquant in your $PATH (In WinXP that is C:windows/system32/)
- You are good to go.
Great! Seems to work nice on my computer as well.
ps. You have written “Firefox 8″ above the Fireworks 8 image
Thanks Lennart, I did this in a lot of places before I noted it, missed that one. I’m hopeless, hehe.
I want to write a GUI for a dos program. Can you tell me what language you used and
any guides?
Thanks
Bob: Sorry, I am not the one who have done the program, I just promote it on my site.
Thanks for GUI! Very conveniently.
Nice one, I’m going to fire this up and see if I can simplify the PNG files currenly in production use on a site. I’ve never liked how large they were, but did require partial transparency.