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The output can be made much smaller if you just encode (and possibly compress) the bitmap data as a (base64?) string in JavaScript, then use a little JavaScript to actually render it at runtime. You can then have all sorts of optimizations - render using CSS data URIs or canvas where available, for example, to make it look better on iPads and other high-DPI devices.


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