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

[Deixis]

>Hate this mailing list format
>
>However scaling down a very large image can be done using an
>application nip2.
>
>see: http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=VIPS
>
>I have not tried this in Windows, I use linux.
>Windows versions can be found at
>http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/supported/current/win32/
>Despite the "/win32" the zips are named "_w64", so I assume 64 bit. no
>installer, unpacks to folders.
>
>For this demo (in linux) scaling a 1197 MB png to a 20 MB jpg.
>
>https://youtu.be/76Xn5BIrl2Y 4 minutes

I can't seem to spot nip2 in the directory structure. Vips itself also seems to
be a dos/command prompt application, I don't get an interface when running the
vips executable.

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