Here’s a new update with a feature that’s been missing for long: web export with live compression preview. All powered by the great command line tools ImageMagick and AdvComp. ChocoFlop still only works in true color but you can now export and get the smallest possible files. If you are trying to get PNG files to get as small as possible, for example because like me you’re into mobile apps, then ChocoFlop will now be able to do the job. If you find a combination that gives you smaller PNG files I’d like to hear about it.

Since all the compression, quantization and dithering magic is done by ImageMagick, you’ll need ImageMagick installed. I thought about bundling if with the app but it’s ten times bigger than the app itself. So instead the app just tells you to download it and unzip it in on your disk. Maybe in a future version it will be able to download and unzip it automatically.

I also built an universal binary of advpng (part of the AdvanceComp project), which you can get here if you want to use it for other purposes. It’s also bundled in the app package now, much like dcRaw was previously. (Merci Gilles pour le build PowerPC ^_^)

Changes for this version:

• Save for web feature
• Clicking on the left area of the cancel button no longer enables/disables live preview
• No more ugly artifacts while resizing the window

As usual, update, enjoy and export lots of images.

PS: I have noticed that the current version of ChocoFlop seems to have serious issues on Intel cards (again…). And by issues I mean trying to create 1280×1024 document would just do nothing. I’ll try to fix this maybe tomorrow when I have time to play with this on my mac mini.