Re: [Gimp-user] Large XCF filesize

[Shlomi Fish <shlomif shlomifish org>]

On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 03:36:03 +0200
Owen <owen cook gmx com> wrote:

> > 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.

[shlomif@telaviv1 ~]$ ls -l template.xcf*
-rw-r--r-- 1 shlomif shlomif 946164 Jun 14 11:06 template.xcf
-rw-r--r-- 1 shlomif shlomif  92386 Jun 14 11:06 template.xcf.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 shlomif shlomif 105813 Jun 14 11:06 template.xcf.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 shlomif shlomif  52708 Jun 14 11:06 template.xcf.xz


> Pretty reasonable to me?
>
>
>
> Owen
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