Using -colors <numColors> is not practical when I am converting a bunch of images using a DOS "for" loop command.
for %f in (*.png) do nconvert -o out\%f %f
I also do not know the number of color used in each image.
I only determined that nconvert was expanding the palette because some of my ...
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- Mon Jul 28, 2014 1:13 pm
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- Topic: copy png to png expands palette
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- Fri Jul 25, 2014 5:21 pm
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- Topic: copy png to png expands palette
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copy png to png expands palette
If you copy an 8bit png which uses only a few colors, say 10 and copy using "ncvonert -o new.png old.png", your new image has a palette of 256 colors expanding the size of the image (bytes on disk, not image dimension). The size of the image is critical since I am placing them in an Android apk ...