'PNGGauntlet' Articles
PNGGauntlet 3.1.2 is a minor update that resolves some bugs, and adds a much-requested option. First, the bugfixes - PNGGauntlet will now correctly add directories that have a '.' in their name. Previously, it'd reject the whole directory, saying it was an unrecognized image extension. Now it works as expected. I've also tweaked the way PNGGauntlet handles temp files, so if you've been getting errors about not being able to write or delete temp files, this should address that.
The only new feature is an option labeled “Always convert files to PNG even if it would make them larger” in the Options dialog. PNGGauntlet has always single-mindedly gone for the smallest files it could, and this meant that when it converted from something like JPEG to PNG and the resulting file was larger, it'd just leave the JPEG and not write the PNG. After all, if a graphic was already smallest as a JPEG, then it should stay that way. However, I've had many people asking for PNGGauntlet to convert those...
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I was hoping PNGGauntlet 3.1.0 would be the last release I'd need to do for a while, but it looks like there were still a few bugs that needed to be fixed. 3.1.1 is out and fixes all the bugs that were reported to me. The most important was a bug where...
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It's been less than a week since PNGGauntlet 3 was released, and now PNGGauntlet 3.1 is out! It turns out that when I found PNGGauntlet 3, forgotten and incomplete, I hadn't realized exactly how incomplete it was. Most everything worked, but the options...
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This weekend I released a major update to PNGGauntlet, my PNG compression utility for Windows. A lot has changed, including a lot of bug fixes, but the biggest news is that PNGGauntlet now produces even smaller PNGs! I did a bunch of research, and...
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Last week I pushed a new update to PNGGauntlet, version 2.1. It's been almost two years since the last PNGGauntlet update, and 2.1 doesn't bring a lot of new stuff - it's mainly bug fixes and optimizations. But there are some cool new bits. My favorite...
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I thought everything was going well with PNGGauntlet 2 until I got a comment reporting some problems with it at the beginning of the month. It's taken me almost a month to get a chance to sit down and check out the problem (August is always really...
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Just a quick update, I just uploaded a new version of PNGGauntlet that fixes a couple of annoying bugs, as well as making it so you can use the “Open With” menu to open files in PNGGauntlet. Just right click, select “Open With”, select “Choose Default...
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It's been about three years since I last released an update to PNGGauntlet. This PNG image optimizing tool has been very popular, but has been sorely in need of a refresh. Today I'm excited to announce a major update, PNGGauntlet 2.0.
The most important...
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