Hi, On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 23:19 -0500, Jay Smith wrote:
> ?? On the pnmtotiff, it said: > > pnmtotiff: computing colormap... > pnmtotiff: Too many colors - proceeding to write a 24-bit RGB file. > pnmtotiff: If you want an 8-bit palette file, try doing a 'ppmquant 256'. > > What does this mean.... Too many colors?? There are too many colors (more than 256) to create a file with an indexed palette. So the tool decides to create a true-color RGB file instead. > The process did cut the file size from 2,850,625 to 2,844,590 which > change is LESS than the total of the ICC Profile and the Photoshop Data > that were present in the original. It got rid of them, but did not > quite reclaim all the space. If you look carefully you will notice that new information has been added, such as a DocumentName and an ImageDescription. If you really care about file-size, perhaps you should use compression in your TIFF files. Uncompressed TIFF files are huge, obviously. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
