> These filters are the reason why the PNG is a nose ahead of the GIF format and is therefore almost always smaller Not really. I found that for many many many

> These filters are the reason why the PNG is a nose ahead of the GIF format and is therefore almost always smaller Not really. I found that for many many many pictures, not using a filter turns out to be the smallest option. It's really just that DEFLATE is much better than LZW as used by GIF.