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		cylemons on Jan 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hello, PNG The "compressed" file may end up larger than the original?

artiii on Jan 19, 2023 [–]

why not? most formats have some headers and some kind of frames with data (additional headers)

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