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H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Mar 14 05:36 AM EDT in reply to Fergus Duniho from Wed Mar 13 06:12 PM:

It appears almost all alfaerie GIF images are 50x50. Some (including the orthodox pieces) are 49x49. Elephants and their derivatives are even 53x50. I recall that I had once seen a 48x48 GIF too, but forgot which that was.

Almost all PNG images are 48x48, though. Only a few that I recently made (mostly compounds done by fen2.php) are 50x50. I produced many of the SVG from which these are derived, but I think Greg had a script that he used to 'bulk convert' the SVG to PNG. He must have used 48x48 in this script. Why he picked that size is unclear to me, as amongst the GIF images it is virtually non-existent.

I think it is undesirable that GIF and PNG images have different sizes. It should be our long-term goal to upgrade all images to the (anti-aliased) PNG, and having different sizes would obstruct that.

So what to do? Should I try to re-render all the alfaeriePNG at 50x50? I suppose I could make my own script for that, at least for everything that we have as SVG, and not compound or post-edited (to apply crosses and such)..