in reply to Re^5: How to keep Imager's image files small ?
in thread How to keep Imager's image files small ?

Exactly that.

Unlike GIF, PNG supports direct colour, so there's no need for the automatic to_paletted() that writing a GIF does.

I've considered adding an optimization option, but it's low priority.

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