Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavoir with big images and memory

2005-04-26 Thread Robin Laing
jim feldman wrote: > > I have a curious question. > > Have you tried to play with the tile cache sizes? I had a problem > some time ago but I didn't get a chance to go further due to priority > changes. I was having problems with large images as well. I got as > far as changing tile cache

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavoir with big images and memory

2005-04-25 Thread gcrimp
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 08:03:07PM -0600, jim feldman wrote: > I'm working with scanned medium format film images that are TIFF's of 100MB > each. The GIMP environment is gimp 2.2.6 (built from ports about a week ago) > on FreeBSD 5.3 Release. The display is a Linux (RH9) box. The tiff's are > c

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavoir with big images and memory

2005-04-25 Thread Robin Laing
jim feldman wrote: Quoting Asif Lodhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: > Hi Jim, > > Though I have never worked with such large images, don't you think it > would be a good idea to save each TIFF as XCF, do whatever you want to > do on XCF and then save the modified XCF as TIFF again? May be odd > beh

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavoir with big images and memory

2005-04-24 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
On Sunday 24 April 2005 21:06, jim feldman wrote: > Quoting Asif Lodhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi Jim, > > > > Though I have never worked with such large images, don't you > > think > > it > > > would be a good idea to save each TIFF as XCF, do whatever you > > want > > to > > > do on XCF and then

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavoir with big images and memory

2005-04-24 Thread jim feldman
Quoting Asif Lodhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Jim, > > Though I have never worked with such large images, don't you think it > would be a good idea to save each TIFF as XCF, do whatever you want to > do on XCF and then save the modified XCF as TIFF again? May be odd > behavior will go away that w

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavoir with big images and memory

2005-04-24 Thread Asif Lodhi
Hi Jim, Though I have never worked with such large images, don't you think it would be a good idea to save each TIFF as XCF, do whatever you want to do on XCF and then save the modified XCF as TIFF again? May be odd behavior will go away that way because XCF is the native file format. May be inc

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavoir with big images and memory

2005-04-24 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:43:00AM -0600, jim feldman wrote: > what i learned about pdf from the openicc mail list. long ago when i was first able to read and make pdf on my little linux computer, my pdf looked terrible on my computer and the pdf i was able to make did not look good displayed on

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavoir with big images and memory

2005-04-24 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
On Sunday 24 April 2005 15:42, Carol Spears wrote: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:43:00AM -0600, jim feldman wrote: > > my options are tiff, jpg and pdf.? Of possible interest is that > > if I read in (using TC set to 400mb) one of the big tiff's, write > > it back out as a xcf (GIMP native), set th

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavoir with big images and memory

2005-04-24 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:43:00AM -0600, jim feldman wrote: > > > my options are tiff, jpg and pdf.? Of possible interest is that if > I read in (using TC set to 400mb) one of the big tiff's, write it > back out as a xcf (GIMP native), set the TC up to 600, read back the > xcf, and it still cra

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavoir with big images and memory

2005-04-24 Thread jim feldman
my options are tiff, jpg and pdf.  Of possible interest is that if I read in (using TC set to 400mb) one of the big tiff's, write it back out as a xcf (GIMP native), set the TC up to 600, read back the xcf, and it still crashes with the same errors.why doesn't GIMP like TIFF?Quoting Carol Spears <[

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavoir with big images and memory

2005-04-24 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 08:03:07PM -0600, jim feldman wrote: > I'm working with scanned medium format film images that are TIFF's of 100MB > each. The GIMP environment is gimp 2.2.6 (built from ports about a week ago) > on FreeBSD 5.3 Release. The display is a Linux (RH9) box. The tiff's are > c