[Gimp-user] Can't open extremely large .PNG

[Deixis <forums gimpusers com>]

> It might be worth having another go. As before I use mainly linux,
> keep a Windows virtual machine to see the problems Win users
> experience with Gimp.
>
> This Win 10 VM is short on resources, 2 GB memory and not much free
> disk space. Amazed that it works.
>
> 15 minutes to load the 1,225,877 KB png, 18 minutes to render a 10%
> scaled png 32,561 KB
>
> see the screenshot and check the bottom left corner. I started with
> 2.02 GB free and ended with 1.11
>
> Personally, I do not think that ImageMagick will scale that down. I
> get error messages here, but the place to ask is the IM forum where
> they are very helpful.
>
> http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/ users section.

Ah, I misspoke. Sorry.

I still can't open it in Nip2. What I meant to say was that the Nip2 UI works
now, but crashes as soon as I try to open the png.

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