Re: [Evolution] Evolution chokes on huge jpg attachments

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

This wouldn't be an Evolution specific bug, it'd be a gdk-pixbuf bug
most likely.

Jeff

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 16:15, David Hoover wrote:
> (Evo 1.0.5 from RC on redhat 7.2)
>
> A friend of mine sent me a draft of a poster she's working on as a jpg.
> The picture's obscenely huge (28704x13102 pixels (11x17" at 150dpi)),
> although jpg compression scrunched it down to only about 3 megs.
>
> The first draft of it I got crashed evolution when I loaded the message;
> it showed the body, and the attachment box at the bottom, but without a
> thumbnail. About a second later, the mail component died.
>
> The second draft of her poster (same number of pixels, updated content)
> didn't crash evo, however it got displayed wrong (it was almost
> completely changed to greyscale)
>
> There was the same pause as the first time; the attachment thing was
> shown, with no thumbnail, then a second later, the (greyscalish)
> thumbnail appeared, as opposed to with the first file, where a second
> later, the mail component crashed.
>
> Are there any known issues like this? I didn't see anything with a quick
> search in bugzilla. 
>
> If not, I can file a bug on it (although I'm waiting to hear back
> whether I have her permission to use these posters in the bug report; I
> might need to try & create my own ones that reproduce the problems)
>
> --
> David Hoover
>
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