Utilities Section. What have I missed?

The Japanese png is inside めがね.app, and the English one is inside Megane.app.

 

Well, it seems the English one is significantly smaller... I'm not sure if that's to do with the png compression or what. The English one is 863 bytes, while the Japanese one is 1202 bytes.

In the what I assume is the header of the file, the Japanese version has two extra fields. One is 'gAMA', which presumably specifies the gamma of the image. Try saving your image with gamma settings?

The other is probably not important, but I wouldn't know for sure. It's a 'tEXt' field with the value "Software.Adobe ImageReady", where the "." represents a null character (depending how the string is stored, that may actually be the end of the field.)

The hex offsets for these two things are $25:$5A, if that means anything to you.

There's nothing extra at the end of either file.

 

Dot dot dot.
You clearly know more about this than I do.
Could you try and fiddle around with the file and see if it'll work better?
(Chikuwa screws up in the English version for you, right?)

 

(Chikuwa screws up in the English version for you, right?)

What would I need to do to test this?

 

Run Megane.app.

 

Try either these two, tell me if they work:

 

It's smaller in the English version. I suspect the problem lies in the resolution setting of the English image.

 

Well, it seems the English one is significantly smaller... I'm not sure if that's to do with the png compression or what. The English one is 863 bytes, while the Japanese one is 1202 bytes.

You can fill the rest in the English one with dummy information at the end of the file, it will still work fine. (see Chikuwa2.png)

In the what I assume is the header of the file, the Japanese version has two extra fields. One is 'gAMA', which presumably specifies the gamma of the image. Try saving your image with gamma settings?

I'll wait til' I get home to fix it. But it is useful to note that the Japanese version had 5 colours and was an 8-bit png, the English version contained useless palette entries.

The other is probably not important, but I wouldn't know for sure. It's a 'tEXt' field with the value "Software.Adobe ImageReady", where the "." represents a null character (depending how the string is stored, that may actually be the end of the field.)

It just specifies the program that created the file, like a signature, nothing important really. Though when I get home I'll try to re-save the image in ImageReady.

It's smaller in the English version. I suspect the problem lies in the resolution setting of the English image.

They are both the same resolution.

Though I made Chikuwa2.png the same filesize as the Japanese one, so try that first.

 

Nope andwhy, your zip file doesn't work.
Here's the problem, it may not be what you think it is.

 

That's why I suggested resolution could be the problem... but apparently not?

Also, innocent-bystander, did you know you can take a screenshot of just a specific window by pressing shift-command-4, then space? And without pressing space, you can select a specific area of the screen.

 

That's why I suggested resolution could be the problem... but apparently not?

Well I will have to start working on my ideas tonight and see where they lead.

 

Also, innocent-bystander, did you know you can take a screenshot of just a specific window by pressing shift-command-4, then space? And without pressing space, you can select a specific area of the screeb.

Yep, knew that. Thanks for the info though.

 

Well, it just looked like you didn't use that feature to get your screenshot...