On 04/06/14 02:00, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Gary Aitken wrote: >> I'm frustrated by large storage requirements for xcf files resulting from >> processing many jpg image files. The processing is typically pretty simple, >> crop, curves, with no touch up. I don't mind the xcf size for images which >> required a lot of detail work, but it's crazy for the majority of them. >> Things which a raw processor encodes in a few KB turn into 60 MB; an 8x >> factor over the original file size. >> >> Are there any plugins, or is any work being done / planned, on some means to >> save (even a selected set of) operations so the result can be reconstructed >> from the original? It would save me many GB of space.
> We don't like it either, which is why it's planned for the future. > Some foundation has already been laid for that in the code, but it > will take time. As we are volunteers, not paid developers, we can't > tell you, when this will be available for end-users. Thanks for the info, Alexandre. I understand the volunteer issue. I'm not complaining, just wanted to know what the current situation was. Was hoping it was in the pipe for a specific release. Thanks to the gimp team for all your work. Gary _______________________________________________ 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
