pngquant<\/em>, which is also a breeze to install on Fedora with yum. \u00a0So finally, I did something like this:<\/p>\n\r\n$ sudo yum install -y pngquant\r\n$ cd folder\/with\/images\r\n$ pngquant --force --ext .png --quality=0-75 *.png\r\n<\/pre>\nThat gave me exactly what I needed – a sufficient enough reduction in file sizes for the ZIP archive to fit into the upload limit set on the server.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
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