Submit portable freeware that you find here. It helps if you include information like description, extraction instruction, Unicode support, whether it writes to the registry, and so on.
PngOptimizer is a tool used to optimize and clean PNG files. It also converts BMP and GIF files into optimized PNG files.
PngOptimizer also converts into PNG a picture stored in the Windows clipboard, like a screenshot.
This software is freeware and works on Windows 98/Me, Windows 2000 and Windows XP (including XP SP2). An independent command line version called PngOptimizerCL is also provided.
I'm the author of PngOptimizer. Thanks for the post.
Andrew Lee, would you prefer PngOptimizer to store its settings into a configuration file, likely to be located in the same folder than the application ?
There are typically two solutions to this problem:
1) Write settings to EXE folder if empty INI file is present, or write settings to user profile folder if not. This enables your app to continue supporting the multi-user scenario.
2) Create two versions: one non-portable, one portable.
Andrew Lee wrote:
1) Write settings to EXE folder if empty INI file is present, or write settings to user profile folder if not. This enables your app to continue supporting the multi-user scenario.
If I might add to that, writing settings to an INI file in the EXE folder has (my personal...) preference, since it saves the hassle of searchin/copying/pasting/resetting etc my personal settings each time I switch computers.
Nice software by the way. I'm always looking for little tools to strip bytes from images for display on the web. Awaiting the portable version... ;)
webfork wrote:Since the author said they would try to fix this, could someone check and see if it qualifies as portable now?
Well there arn't any register-entries anymore (regshot, but I might have blown that, there was a process running on the background that I had forgotten about...), settings are now stored in a .ini file, since v1.6. The ini is however stored in the %APPDATA% folder and not in the PngOptimizer folder... I'd like to have it in the PngOptimizer folder itself...
NB I didn't compare to pngcrush.exe.
Tried out PngOptimizer v1.6 for the first time yesterday - very neat, thank you Hadrien. I liked, from a user's point of view, the default of copying, then overwriting the original PNGs; this is exactly how one would do it manually, but you've automated it.
Here's the question (isn't there always a user who wants more?): is it possible to have an option to retain the date stamp of the original file?
i see on the authors site we are now at 1.8 but there was not menton on the site of it being portable, is it still?
got it now, by the way sometimes it makes my png smaller and sometimes bigger, it varies!
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