So, I have used Gimp to downsize large architectural drawing images from Tiff's to jpgs. Well, I always thought I was downsizing them. In the past, the process always seemed to make the files more usable in the application where I need to use the architectural drawings without a significant loss in quality.
This morning, I have had trouble following 'my process'. Typically, I will open a tiff in Gimp, save as jpg, export if prompted, then select quality of 40 or 50 percent, and the result is a usable file that is significantly smaller than the source tiff file. Today, the source tiff which is 900 mb in size is being converted to jpg which is 6 or 7 mb in size, totally unusable. Additionally, if I simply open the source in Gimp, save it to another directory from Gimp without making any changes, the file also grows to 6 or 7 mb. What am I doing wrong this morning that I have not been doing wrong for the last 6 months? I am stumped (and frustrated because I have work to do). Using version 2.6.11 in Ubuntu 10.10 if that matters. I have a version of 2.7 on my Windows XP OS, and it will lock up trying to open these drawings. It's curious, because, at 900 MB, I typically can use the drawings without even altering or downsizing them. Today, it's a problem. What I really cannot understand is why Gimp is causing unaltered files to grow in size when saving them. Is that normal? Advice will be most appreciated. Caruso -- Carusoswi (via gimpusers.com) _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
