Re: [Gimp-user] Large XCF filesize

[Owen <owen cook gmx com>]

> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2019 at 6:28 AM
> From: "Johannes Bauer" <dfnsonfsduifb gmx de>
> To: gimp-user-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Large XCF filesize
>
> On 13.06.19 22:25, Johannes Bauer wrote:
>
> > I've recently created an XCF template file that almost only contains
> > large slabs of solid colors (i.e., no "picture"), couple of layers and
> > layer masks. I was surprised to find that the XCF compressed this rather
> > poorly, even though this should be an ideal case for lossless compression.
>
> Sigh!
>
> *Of course* I forgot to include the link to the image. Here it is:
> https://github.com/johndoe31415/german-biometric-passport/blob/master/template.xcf



Well, I opened that and then saved it as a .xcf.bz2 file and it was 10% of the original.


Pretty reasonable to me?



Owen