[Maposmatic-dev] Cairo & libpng/zlib parameters

[Jeroen van Rijn]

Hi all,

In the maposmatic.org project, Cairo is employed by way of PyCairo to
render city maps from OpenStreetMap data using Mapnik. I'm currently
investigating the possibility of running optipng after the rendering
is complete to reduce the size of the output file, see [1]. So far
I've identified a number of zlib parameters and png filter range that
appear to be the sweet spot for this type of image as far as file size
goes.

In doing this it suddenly occurred to me that it might be possible -
rather than apply optipng as a secondary stage - to direct Cairo to
directly output a png file with the zlib and libpng parameters
mentioned.

My question to you is: Is there an optional parameter to give PyCairo
or Cairo itself to select a certain png optimization strategy? e.g.
surface.write_to_png(output_filename, zlib = 'zm=9,zc=9', libpng =
'f:1-5')

Thanks in advance for taking the time to answer.

Best regards,
Jeroen van Rijn

[1] https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?9917

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