Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> I had a small 41k jpeg that I turned into an XPM using The Gimp. When I
> did, it swelled to 1.4M. Yikes! I don't know that much about graphics
> formats, but without destroying the clarity, color, etc. of the image,
> is there any way to lessen its size while keeping it an XPM?
gzip
:)
XPM isn't intended for very large images. It's essentially an ASCII
representation of the color value for each pixel in an image. "more"
(Or "less" for those of you who prefer :) the .xpm file to see what I
mean. There's not a lot you can do to reduce the size except use a
compression util.
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