#Imageoptim command line install

#Imageoptim command line install

ImageOptim and ImageOptimCLI not doing it for you, and you don’t want to install Xcode? You can get pngcrush through MacPorts or Homebrew as well. Going this route obviously requires the installation of Xcode, which is fairly sizable, and if you’re not an iOS or Mac developer then it’s a bit excessive just to get a command line pngcrush tool, thus MacPorts and Homebrew are better options. bash_profile:Īlias pngcrush='/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/atform/Developer/usr/bin/pngcrush' That’s quite a ginormous path, so if you plan on using pngcrush directly you can either add that to your PATH directly, or make an alias for it within your. Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/atform/Developer/usr/bin/pngcrush

If you have Xcode installed in OS X, you’ve already have pngcrush installed, it just happens to be buried fairly deep within the Xcode app package at the following location: Nonetheless, there is also a command line version of ImageOptim-CLI available here, or those who are comfortable with the Terminal can proceed and use MacPorts or Homebrew to install pngcrush without ImageOptim. Those that are uncomfortable with the command line should stick with ImageOptim because it’s so easy to use, supports drag & drop and batch processing, and is basically foolproof. It’s also an excellent tool to quickly strip EXIF data from image files, which is done simultaneously alongside file size reduction:

ImageOptim is very effective, and on average it reduces a file size of an image losslessly between 15-35%.

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