also sprach Jeffrey Ratcliffe <[email protected]> [2010.01.04.2311 
+1300]:
> You are quite correct, the "Compress Temporary Files" menu item
> converts all images that are not already PNG or JPG to
> LZW-compressed TIFF -- AND deletes all those that are no longer
> required -- thereby making undo/redo impossible.

And apparently disables stuff like calling unpaper, which needs the
PNM files.

> However, the basic comment is still valid -- I could add a option
> in preferences to do work natively with compressed files -- but it
> would add conversion operations.

And maybe a command just to remove the unreferenced files,
separating the functionality from the compression.

Yes, it adds conversion, but despite 1Gb /tmp space, I find that for
big documents, that's usually my bottleneck, not the CPU.

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