On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:44:49PM +1100, James Gregory 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. > > What can do this? > > I suspect part of the problem is that the gif needs to be decompressed. > If someone can suggest something that will convert a gif to something > else for big files, that would be a great start. Programs that crash so > far: > > gimp > gqview > convert > eog
have you tried giftopnm | pnmscale 0.1 | pnmtopng ? They don't seem to use a lot of memory (~1M), I use them to manipulate scans and faxes which are moderately big. cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
