On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:35:16PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 13 Mar 2003 18:44:49 +1100 > James Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have some images, they are gifs, and they're approximately 14000 > > pixels square. I'd really like to view them, and ideally perform > > transformations such as scaling to a less insane size. > > I suspect the problem is the uncompressed size > Assuming they're 24bit, that's 14000 x 14000 x 24/8 = 588,000,000 bytes
IIRC, gifs are 8 bit (or less). > i.e. ~ 588 Mb. So you might need a Gig of RAM to work on them. So this would be ~196 Mb. You might still need alot of RAM, though :) -Andrew. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
