[Gimp-user] FIle size jump when opening file

[wolfgrrl <forums gimpusers com>]

Yes, they are engineering files. 

While I understand the logic, that doesn't explain the fact of the considerable
editing slowdown on the latest version of Gimp.

I know that 2.8 did not lag this bad. 

Any thoughts on that issue?

Thank you!

> Best guess. Are they transmittals (or maybe archives), typically
> engineering drawings 1 bit tiff files?
>
> These are going to be opened in gimp as 8 bit and the file size
> correspondingly greater. Example file size 11kb  in Gimp as a file in
> memory 30 MB.
>
> After editing export as a CCITT group 4 and you should get back to a
> corresponding small file size
>
> rich: www.gimp-forum.net

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