OT: reducing gif

admin@datazap.net yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu May 13 20:07:01 2004


Hi,

I was wonder if someone could help me with this. I am trying to reduce the
file size of gif images. I thought that if I reduced the size of the image
(the number of pixels) that it would also reduce its file size.

This is what have I done:

agnus: {18} gifrsize -s 0.8 Picture1.gif > Picture1_scale.gif
agnus: {19} ll

-rw-r--r--  1 azick  wheel  10635 May  4 10:48 Picture1.gif
-rw-r--r--  1 azick  wheel  24570 May 13 14:22 Picture1_scale.gif

The image that I reduced is now has a file size of over twice the size of
the original. Does anyone know why, and what I can do to make it smaller?

Thanks,
Al