Re: [Gimp-user] Suggestions for the GIMP

["Myke C. Subs" <subs mykec net>]

On 02/07/2013 01:03 AM, bgw wrote:
> On 02/06/2013 08:08 PM, Myke C. Subs wrote:
> > Is there a way to make it automatically save in ".xcf.gz" format instead
> > of uncompressed ".xcf"?
> Does this save very much? I have a 45 megabyte xcf file; it reduces to
> 37 megabytes using gzip. The time taken vs the total compression
> makes the exercise questionable in my mind.

My question is not one of concern about how much or how little space is
saved.  I simply save all my XCFs as .xcf.gz's and would like to have
The GIMP automatically do that without me having to manually append a
.gz extension every time.

Is it possible?  If so, how?

Myke