Question about serializing PNG images

General JUCE discussion
1

Hi everyone,

I am having a problem with file sizes when loading a PNG image, serializing it into a file, and then reloading the saved file and serializing it again. I have read another post about JPG compression sizes and this could be the same thing, but I am explaining my problem just in case I am talking about different things.

The code is shown below:

const Image img = ImageFileFormat::loadFrom("aa.png");

File file = File("image.dat");

ScopedPointer <FileOutputStream> destStream = file.createOutputStream();

PNGImageFormat pngimage;
pngimage.writeImageToStream(img, *destStream);

After this, the size of image.dat is 5067 bytes.

Then I load the image and save it again:

FileInputStream inputStream(file); //"image.dat"

const Image img2 = ImageFileFormat::loadFrom(*inputStream);


ScopedPointer <FileOutputStream> destStream2 = file.createOutputStream();


PNGImageFormat pngimage2;

pngimage2.writeImageToStream(img2, destStream2);

After this, the size of image.dat is 5070 bytes.

If you do this repeteadly, file size keeps getting bigger. I have to admit every image loads and saves correctly.

What is happening?. Is it the same reason of the other post about JPG compression algorithm?

Thanks to all,

 

Oscar

2

Looks like you're appending new data onto the end of the existing file - try deleting the file first.

3

I am deleting the file first, before opening the stream:

 

This is how I have code(I didn't write the whole code in my post)

 


   bool bIsDeleted = file.deleteFile();
   if (bIsDeleted && file.hasWriteAccess())
   {
      ScopedPointer <FileOutputStream> destStream = file.createOutputStream();

      ..... //Write the file

  }

 

So that's not the problem.

 

 

 

4

Then you're probably somehow not deleting the stream, so that it's not all getting flushed?

5

I've tried using a normal pointer (and deleting it) to create the OutputStream instead of using a ScopedPointer, just in case. The problem remains. I think I might not be deleting the stream, because I have tested the same code to serialize other data such as ValueTree or Fonts and in those cases it does correctly. 

I realised too that PNGImageFormat::writeImageToStream() compresses the image (Original size of my PNG is 6.913 bytes and after loading and serializing using writeImageToStream() it reduces size to 5067 bytes as I said in my first post). May it be related somehow with this function after all?

Anyway, Thanks Jules.