On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 12:00:32PM -0400, Derek Glidden wrote:
> 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.
>
Well the problem is that I run IceWM, and the version I have is only
compiled to use XPM as its graphics format for backgrounds. So I'm stuck
with that (if I don't want to get source and recompile), and although
gzip will squeeze the crap out of the file, Ice won't know what to do
with it.
Paul
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