Hi Anthony,
   I scaled the image using method "scale" of class "Image" from within a C++ 
program. I did not scaled using any command on command line.

Regards,
Prashant S

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 15:03, Anthony Thyssen wrote:
> Prashant Saxena on  wrote...
> | Hello,
> |     I have an image (gif file) having geometry 36x36.    
> | I scaled this image to 18x18. When I viewed the scaled file in browser the 
> image appeard to be smaller as expected. But the number of bytes (as shown by 
> ls -l command) increased for the new scaled down file. How is this possible?
> | 
> | Following are outputs of unix "file" and "ls -l" command on both files.
> | 
> | ls -l in.gif
> | -rw-rw-r--  1 prashant users 868 Jun  7 14:15 in.gif
> | 
> | file in.gif
> | in.gif: GIF image data, version 89a, 36 x 36
> | 
> | 
> | ls -l out.gif
> | -rw-rw-r--  1 prashant users 1078 Jun  7 14:15 out.gif
> | 
> | file out.gif
> | out.gif: GIF image data, version 89a, 18 x 18
> | 
> | You can notice that size (on disk) of original file is 868 bytes but that 
> of new scaled down file is 1078 bytes. This seems confusing to me.
> | 
> 
> You did not mention the actual IM command used!
> 
> More than likely your actual image is 36x36 but it is on a larger
> canvas.
> 
> Check what  identify  reports for that image!
> 
> It will probably look something like....
>    crop.gif GIF 40x30 70x46+10+10 PseudoClass 256c 2.1kb 
> 
> This image is 40x30, but is on a later 70x46 canvas!
> Resize reszies a canvas, NOT the image.
> 
> To fix try...
>    convert in.gif +repage -scale 18x18  out.gif
> 
> 
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