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Re:MP3 for Image Compression (2006) by bluedino on Monday April 17, 2017 @07:14PM (#14135242)
I remember reading an article where file data (a ZIP file I believe) was converted into a bitmap image, and then it was compressed with PNG for another few % of compression.
Re:MP3 for Image Compression (2006) by alkoumpa on Monday April 17, 2017 @07:24PM (#14135310)
While it might be possible for special cases [1], I have my concerns, you really can't compress (lossless) beyond the (information theoretic) entropy -- in which case one would try to compress deflate (zip) with deflate (png).

[1]: I remember when I was taking an information theory lesson at the university and told the (video/jpeg compression guru) professor that I compressed an AVI file with my dump arithmetic coding implementation, he was shocked, turns out the file had some large crappy header from the editor

Re:MP3 for Image Compression (2006) by charonn0 on Monday April 17, 2017 @07:27PM (#14135323)
> another few % of compression

ZIP consists of sections of both compressed and uncompressed data, so some compressibility is to be expected.