On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 01:31:47PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > > $ du -sk * > > 52 screenshot.png > > 128 screenshot_resized.png > > > > The new image is over 4 times bigger than the original! > > 128 / 52 = 2.46
Okay, I forgot how to divide. But still. > > These are RGB images BTW, but that shouldn't cause this. > > Actually these are RGBA images. If you want to reduce the file size, > you'd better flatten the image since I don't see any alpha > information. Thanks. I didn't realize that they were. How do you tell appart an RGBA image from an RGB image? Gimp calls them both "RGB". -- Daniel Carrera | OpenPGP fingerprint: Graduate TA, Math Dept | 6643 8C8B 3522 66CB D16C D779 2FDD 7DAC 9AF7 7A88 UMD (301) 405-5137 | http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/pgp.html
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