{"id":1825,"date":"2013-10-05T02:21:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T02:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2013-10-05T02:21:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T02:21:01","slug":"losslessly-compress-jpg-ubuntu-wxpackjpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/losslessly-compress-jpg-ubuntu-wxpackjpg\/","title":{"rendered":"How to losslessly compress JPG in Ubuntu Linux via wxPackJPG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/jpg-compressor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/jpg-compressor.jpg\" alt=\"jpg compressor\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/jpg-compressor.jpg 180w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/jpg-compressor-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>wxPackJPG is a simple tool to losslessly compress JPG image files. It can be used to backup image files in the JPEG format. They use about 20% less space, but can be restored to bit-identical files.<\/p>\n<p>wxPackJPG is the GUI for the command-line tool <i>PackJPG<\/i>. There is already a DotNet-GUI called &#8220;PackJPG Options&#8221;, but this only runs on Windows and does not use more than one core.<\/p>\n<p>Features of wxPackJPG:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It losslessly compresses JPEG image files. For this it uses the library packJPGlib. That means, the resulting files are 100% compatible to packJPG<\/li>\n<li>Multithreading: wxPackJPG will use every core to compress JPEG files, if multiple files are selected<\/li>\n<li>Multiplatform: Binaries for Windows 32\/64 bit (with and without installers) and OS X are provided, source code is available for compilation on Linux and other Unixes.<\/li>\n<li>There is a portable version which stores nothing in ini-files or in the registry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wxPackJPG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wxPackJPG.jpg\" alt=\"wxPackJPG jpg compression tool\" width=\"500\" height=\"308\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wxPackJPG.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wxPackJPG-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Install wxPackJPG via PPA:<\/h3>\n<p>The image compression tool is available in PPA for Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal and their derivatives such as Linux Mint, Elementary OS, etc.<\/p>\n<p>To get started, press <u>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/u> on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<p><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor\/myway<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Then update package lists and install the jpg compressor:<\/p>\n<p><code>sudo apt-get update<\/code><\/p>\n<p><code>sudo apt-get install wxpackjpg<\/code><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t want to add the PPA, download the Deb from <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~dhor\/+archive\/myway\/+packages\" title=\"wxPackJpg on launchpad.net\" target=\"_blank\">launchpad.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Windows and Mac OS installers, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/wxpackjpg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sourceforge<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wxPackJPG is a simple tool to losslessly compress JPG image files. It can be used to backup image files in the JPEG format. They use about 20% less space, but can be restored to bit-identical files. wxPackJPG is the GUI for the command-line tool PackJPG. There is already a DotNet-GUI called &#8220;PackJPG Options&#8221;, but this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[666,664,665],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-review","tag-jpg-compressor","tag-packjpg","tag-wxpackjpg"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}