I agree that a scale option in the export menu would certainly be handy, but it comes with its own set of problems - like which type of scaling algorithm to use? The different algorithms may produce different results depending on what is being exported - so I _think_ it may be smarter to try the one that makes sense for your particular image, then export and undo/not-save.
Not sure if this has been requested as a feature or not, but if not it might be worth asking. On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 2:21 PM Johnny Rosenberg via gimp-user-list < gimp-user-list@gnome.org> wrote: > Hi again! > > I'm currently working with a huge image, 19262×12825, and now when I > finished it I want to export it as jpeg. In the export dialogue, I can > easily change the quality, and since the image is maybe 95 % white I can > select a very low quality number and still keep a decent quality, but the > file size is still at least 5 MiB. > The high resolution is not necessary at all. The reason for having it in > the first place is that I scanned an A2 document with an A4 scanner four > times and put it together in GIMP and I used the scanner's highest > resolution; I figured it's best to have the best possible resolution to > work with and then scale it down as the last step of the process. > Anyway, to save it, scaled down to, I don't know, maybe 20 % or even 10, I > first need to scale down the whole file, then export and then undo the > down-scaling (or quit without saving), or is there an easier way? I wish > there was a scale option in the jpeg quality dialogue or in a separate > dialogue, but that doesn't seem to be the case. > Am I missing something? > > > Kind regards > > Johnny Rosenberg > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list -- https://patdavid.net GPG: 66D1 7CA6 8088 4874 946D 18BD 67C7 6219 89E9 57AC _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
