The builtin stbi_zlib_compress does not compress as well as zlib or
miniz (which is not too surprising as it's <200 LOC), thus PNGs created
by stb_image_write are about 20-50% bigger than PNGs compressed with
libpng.
This change lets the user supply a custom deflate/zlib-style compress
function, which improves compression a lot. This was requested in #113.
Example for zlib:
#include <zlib.h>
unsigned char* compress_for_stbiw(unsigned char *data, int data_len,
int *out_len, int quality)
{
uLongf bufSize = compressBound(data_len);
// note that buf will be free'd by stb_image_write.h
// with STBIW_FREE() (plain free() by default)
unsigned char* buf = malloc(bufSize);
if(buf == NULL) return NULL;
if(compress2(buf, &bufSize, data, data_len, quality) != Z_OK)
{
free(buf);
return NULL;
}
*out_len = bufSize;
return buf;
}
#define STBIW_ZLIB_COMPRESS compress_for_stbiw
#define STB_IMAGE_WRITE_IMPLEMENTATION
#include "stb_image_write.h"
// ...