In an older version of PNGOUTWin (1.0.60627), when you ran an optimisation run, even if the resulting file was larger than the original it still listed the new file size/how much larger it is. This was great for seeing if certain runs were close to the optimal or if they were a long way off, so you pick what ones to run through the randomiser and you could trim away the edge settings that were unlikely to produce a smaller file to speed it up. As far as I can tell, this feature was removed for some reason.
Is there a way to bring this feature back?
David at
Re: PNGOUTWin Compressed size listing
RIUM+ said at
In an older version of PNGOUTWin (1.0.60627), when you ran an optimisation run, even if the resulting file was larger than the original it still listed the new file size/how much larger it is. This was great for seeing if certain runs were close to the optimal or if they were a long way off, so you pick what ones to run through the randomiser and you could trim away the edge settings that were unlikely to produce a smaller file to speed it up. As far as I can tell, this feature was removed for some reason.
Is there a way to bring this feature back?
Yes. I don't have the source in front of me, but I think I created a registry entry that can bring this back. I'll put up a post later today with the info. [See addition to this post below.]
This info was removed because people kept writing in telling us that PNGOUTWin was writing out larger files, when in fact it wasn't. The info on unsuccessful trials seemed to be confusing to a lot of people.
David
[ Edit: To show the results of unsuccessful trials, create a DWORD registry value named "ShowUnsuccessfulTrialInfo" set to 1 under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ArdfryImaging\PNGOUTWin ]
Edited by David at
RIUM+ at
Thanks so much; this will save me having to switch between multiple versions of PNGOUTWin :D