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Old 07-18-2007, 12:12 AM
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Hey Kolano... nice job on the bug fixes. Regarding the updated PNGs for Audio Manager, I don't see any difference at all in the quality--I don't think WM5 can show 32bits of color information anyway (can it?). It's such a huge space savings in that OEM I'm contemplating just replacing your images in the OEM for the next revision. Can you think of any reason why I shouldn't do that? I've played around with the app and really don't see any difference visually.

Along the same lines, any chance you could take a look at the new comm manager OEM as well? It also uses 32bit PNGs. I tried using irfanview to batch convert them to 8bit (set compression at 0) but the resulting 8 bit files were larger than the 24bit source files! I dunno if that's an irfanview quirk or as a result of using compression in the originals.

It obviously won't save as much space as the Audio Manager OEM but any chance you could look into it to see if converting the new comm manager graphics to 8bit would be worth it? I have to admit right now it's hard to justify the 10-fold increase in space over the old comm manager (~900k vs. ~90k).

Thanks again.
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