Allow fewer PNG palette entries than the bit depth maximum when saving #5330
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Resolves #2202
Currently when saving a PNG in P mode, Pillow sets the number of bytes in the palette at two to the power of the bit depth, times 3 for the colors.
Pillow/src/PIL/PngImagePlugin.py
Lines 1272 to 1274 in 8064e04
As pointed out in the issue, https://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/#11PLTE states that
So this PR changes
palette_byte_number
to the number of colors times 3 instead.The length of the tRNS chunk is also changed, as https://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/#11tRNS