Re: [Gimp-user] [Q] Resizing a PNG makes it BIGGER!

2003-06-06 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:30:29AM +0100, Jonathan E. Paton wrote: Retake the screenshot, after reducing the size of the window. If you look at what the screenshot is of, you will notice that I can't make the window much smaller since that would hide information, or pack it very tightly. At

Re: [Gimp-user] [Q] Resizing a PNG makes it BIGGER!

2003-06-06 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 01:31:47PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: $ du -sk * 52 screenshot.png 128 screenshot_resized.png The new image is over 4 times bigger than the original! 128 / 52 = 2.46 Okay, I forgot how to divide. But still. These are RGB images BTW, but that

Re: [Gimp-user] [Q] Resizing a PNG makes it BIGGER!

2003-06-06 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Daniel Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks. I didn't realize that they were. How do you tell appart an RGBA image from an RGB image? Gimp calls them both RGB. I used file foo.png but there are lots of indicators in GIMP as well. The most obvious is probably if you can Flatten the

Re: [Gimp-user] [Q] Resizing a PNG makes it BIGGER!

2003-06-05 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
--- Daniel Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:12:22AM +0200, Marco Wessel wrote: My guess is that this is because of the interpolation when resampling. Makes it less easily compressable. (Notice the 'anti-aliased' edges in the resized picture?) Marco Wessel

Re: [Gimp-user] [Q] Resizing a PNG makes it BIGGER!

2003-06-05 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Daniel Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is really weird. I have a PNG image. I tried to make it smaller by resizing it down, but instead it got BIGGER. I don't understand this at all. I put the images on the web: Original: http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/screenshot.png

Re: [Gimp-user] [Q] Resizing a PNG makes it BIGGER!

2003-06-05 Thread Marco Wessel
My guess is that this is because of the interpolation when resampling. Makes it less easily compressable. (Notice the 'anti-aliased' edges in the resized picture?) Marco Wessel On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Daniel Carrera wrote: Hi, This is really weird. I have a PNG image. I tried to make it

Re: [Gimp-user] [Q] Resizing a PNG makes it BIGGER!

2003-06-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:12:22AM +0200, Marco Wessel wrote: My guess is that this is because of the interpolation when resampling. Makes it less easily compressable. (Notice the 'anti-aliased' edges in the resized picture?) Marco Wessel Any suggestion as to how to fix it? -- Daniel