Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Image size limit of GIMP & Image SDK

2006-02-21 Thread John Cupitt
You could use something like VIPS to chop your scans into manageable pieces, retouch the tiles one at a time in gimp, and then use VIPS to recombine them again. You could also consider 64-bit gimp. I imagine you could go over the 2GB limit with a 64-bit build, though I've never tried it. VIPS wo

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Image size limit of GIMP & Image SDK

2006-02-21 Thread Limin Zhang
Thanks. I tried it. However, it is very bad at retouching photographs as shown on the website of VIPS. I want to develop a application for a scanner, which should be able to let user edit the images. Cheers Limin On 2/21/06, Pär Forsling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Limin Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Gimp-developer] Re: Image size limit of GIMP & Image SDK

2006-02-21 Thread Pär Forsling
Limin Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for an image SDK which can process an image of size, for > example, more than 1GB. I tried to open an image file(*.tiff) of size > 800MB GIMP on my computer, WinXP, PIV 2.4GHZ, and 1GB memory. It is too > slow. It is impossible to edit it. Sinc