Re: [Gimp-user] Large XCF filesize

2019-06-14 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 14.06.19 10:49, Simon Budig wrote: >> Well, I opened that and then saved it as a .xcf.bz2 file and it was >> 10% of the original. >> >> Pretty reasonable to me? > > Well, yeah. But this is not what Johannes is talking about, he is > questioning the performance of the builtin compression of XCF.

Re: [Gimp-user] Large XCF filesize

2019-06-14 Thread Simon Budig
Owen (owen.c...@gmx.com) wrote: > > On 13.06.19 22:25, Johannes Bauer wrote: > > > > > I've recently created an XCF template file that almost only contains > > > large slabs of solid colors (i.e., no "picture"), couple of layers and > > > layer masks. I was surprised to find that the XCF compressed

Re: [Gimp-user] Large XCF filesize

2019-06-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 03:36:03 +0200 Owen wrote: > > Sent: Friday, June 14, 2019 at 6:28 AM > > From: "Johannes Bauer" > > To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Large XCF filesize > > > > On 13.06.19 22:25, Johannes Bauer w

Re: [Gimp-user] Large XCF filesize

2019-06-13 Thread Owen
> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2019 at 6:28 AM > From: "Johannes Bauer" > To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Large XCF filesize > > On 13.06.19 22:25, Johannes Bauer wrote: > > > I've recently created an XCF template file that almost onl

Re: [Gimp-user] Large XCF filesize

2019-06-13 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 13.06.19 22:25, Johannes Bauer wrote: > I've recently created an XCF template file that almost only contains > large slabs of solid colors (i.e., no "picture"), couple of layers and > layer masks. I was surprised to find that the XCF compressed this rather > poorly, even though this should be a

[Gimp-user] Large XCF filesize

2019-06-13 Thread Johannes Bauer
Hi there, I've recently created an XCF template file that almost only contains large slabs of solid colors (i.e., no "picture"), couple of layers and layer masks. I was surprised to find that the XCF compressed this rather poorly, even though this should be an ideal case for lossless compression.