I am curious about your file sizes though: 400 KB doesn't sound all that big; actually, that sounds pretty small. Also, I'm not very technical so bear with me, but isn't 5 times 400 KB about 2.0 MB? What am I missing here?
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 23:31, Kevin Myers wrote: > Under Windows I am running into a problem where the GIMP's pixel buffer > seems to hit a 2GB file size limit when my gray scale TIFF image files > excede roughly 400KB in size. I'm guessing the buffer requires 5 bytes per > pixel (RGB, transparency, ?), even though all of that isn't really needed > for my images. > > I need to work with these images absolutely ASAP. Because all of the > machines involved are running Windoze, I was hoping to stick with that. > However, it's starting to look like that is a hopeless cause given my poor > porting skills and the apparant lack of interest of most gimp developers in > addressing this problem under Windoze (at least in the near term). > > So, I'm starting to consider using Linux instead, and have two related > questions: > > 1. Can anyone out there positively confirm that running the GIMP under a > fairly recent version of Linux would avoid any inherent 2GB pixel buffer > size limit? I can provide some images for testing if anyone would like to > volunteer... > > 2. Would anyone out there care to suggest a readily available commercial > Linux distribution that is extremely easy to install, learn, and use for > unsophisticated users with primarily Windblows experience? > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > s/KAM > > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
