User:Wildgoosespeeder/PNG Monstrous

PNG Monstrous (accidently misspelled "Monsterous" at run time) is an unofficial update for PNG Monster that gives it a few extra features while retaining all the original features and functionality. It contains the latest version of pngout for good measure. Yes, I still have a working version of Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition to make this revision thanks to the included source code of the PNG Monster download. File:PM Mariothininking.PNG

Benefits for MarioWiki

Optimizing PNGs benefits MarioWiki in three ways:

• Reduces storage space required, which is a plus for Porplemontage (talk), the owner of MarioWiki.
• Faster page load times.
• It's more considerate to people using slow or metered connections accessing MarioWiki.

New Features

• zopflipng added.
• Check/uncheck optimizers to speed up optimization time.
• pngout and zopflipng are enabled by default while the other older optimizers are disabled by default.
  • The reason is that most of my tests indicate that these optimizers are all you will ever need, but for edge cases, you will get access to all optimizers.
    • This usually occurs with very dimensionally small images, such as sprites. Use all optimizers in this case. It won't take long to cycle through all of them.
  • pngrewrite check box can't be modified but the option is there for a future revision.
• Log notes what optimizer is running.

Bugfixes

• "Run-time error '6': Overflow" fixed. The original program was trying to divide by 0.

Download

You will need Service Pack 6 for Visual Basic 6.0 to run this app. If you are running a supported Windows OS by Microsoft, this should already be installed and ready to go so no need to download that. I LOVE Microsoft's efforts to retain compatibility! File:Go Mario.PNG

ZIP file on GitHub:
PNG Monstrous

DISCLAIMER

PS to admins: If this counts as advertising, please delete this page asap.