I may have spoken the other way around. In any case, just hold on till 5.5 is out and this will be addressed.
Utkarsh On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 1:13 PM, Stief, Alexander <alexander.st...@hs-aalen.de> wrote: > This does not fit my observation. > Saving as a screenshot, I get a reasonably small png file size. > Saving the same scene as an animation instead, I get huge png files instead > regardless of the image content. > > I tried again with a plain white scene and a resolution of 6428x3764 > File size using save screenshot (image quality 100): 85.2KiB > File size using save animation (image quality 100): 69.3Mib > File size using save animation (image quality 80): 327.2Kib > > > > Alex, > > In 5.4, save screenshot didn't compress the images at all. This was > done simply to improve the performance since compression took > considerable amount of time for larger images. However, it's been > changed in 5.5 to a more sensible default for both animations and save > screenshots. > > Also note, with PNG compression doesn't affect image quality since > it's always lossless. > > Utkarsh > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 7:20 AM, Stief, Alexander > <alexander.st...@hs-aalen.de> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> PV version is 5.4.1 >> when making a png screenshot in PV with a resolution of 3840x2160, the file >> size I get with default settings is ~1.4MB. This is due to the fact that >> around 80% of the image are plain white space. So far, so normal. >> However, when I create an animation and export to png images with the exact >> same default settings for image quality, the image file size for the exact >> same scene is ~28MB. >> Only when I dial down the image quality manually to around 60 the file size >> becomes similar to the png file from the screenshot. And the image quality >> is not visibly worse than with 100% setting. >> This must be some kind of bug, I never had this issue with previous >> versions. >> >> tl;dr: png image file size differs greatly between screenshot and animation >> with the exact same default settings. >> >> Regards >> Alex >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Powered by www.kitware.com >> >> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >> >> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: >> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView >> >> Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView >> >> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >> https://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview >> _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: https://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview
