I see in the changelog for PNGOutWin that you are continuesly improving the algorithm, for instance you have "Improved compression of PNG images with large number of Huffman blocks". Are these improvements only in PNGOutWin, or are they in the dos version as well?
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Re: Difference between PNGOutWin and pngout.exe
I had a look, and it seems to have also been changed in pngout.exe. I believe the compression engine is shared between the two programs, so any changes there make it into both. By the way, just so you know, pngout.exe is a Windows app, not a DOS one - it just happens to have a command line interface.
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counting_pine said at
I had a look, and it seems to have also been changed in pngout.exe. I believe the compression engine is shared between the two programs, so any changes there make it into both. By the way, just so you know, pngout.exe is a Windows app, not a DOS one - it just happens to have a command line interface.
Thank you for your interest in PNGOUT. Yes, the compression engine is shared.
For most people, Windows means a GUI and DOS means command-line only. Developlers, and only the old-school sort who know C/C++ vs. only .net and vb, would understand the technical difference. If we called it a windows console app, then only people who have run Visual Studio would understand that it doesn't have a GUI.
PNGOUT is poplular in many more areas than just development for mobile devices.