Re: Large images

2000-03-24 Thread Mogens Jæger
Joachim Ansorg wrote: Hi! I really like the GIMP. But it's unusable for large images (e.g. 2000x2000 pixels). My brother had to copy one big image into another: -My home partitiion was completely filled (115 MB of GIMP swap) -GIMP used more than 60MB of RAM My PC is a AMD K6/2 300 MHZ

Re:Largeimages

2000-03-24 Thread Péter
Mogens Jger wrote: Joachim Ansorg wrote: I really like the GIMP. But it's unusable for large images (e.g. 2000x2000 pixels). My brother had to copy one big image into another: -My home partitiion was completely filled (115 MB of GIMP swap) -GIMP used more than 60MB of RAM Hey there

Re: Newbiequestions.

2000-03-24 Thread Péter
Guido Bressan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found somewhere that I had to download, compile and install a "jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz", which I did. First I performed a standard installation, making the jpeg executables visible to GIMP by linking them from the "lib/gimp/1.0/plug-ins" directory, then I

Re: Newbie questions.

2000-03-24 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[Some comments, maybe bit off topic] 3) I understand as well that one has to be careful not to have too large a swap space compared to your actual RAM, as it can end up slowing thigs down. Well, swap / RAM size is a tricky thing, some OS force you how much swap you must have, others leave you