Manfred, a Pngquant GUI

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

1. Download the GUI and unzip it somewhere
2. Download Pngquant from the their site. (Windows binaries)
3. Download .net runtime environment from MS. (you might already have this)
4. Put the Pngquant in your $PATH (In WinXP that is C:windows/system32/)
5. You are good to go.

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