Re: Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP Image Size Limits
Cameron Gregory <[email protected]>
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read through the gimpwin archives .. there is lots of good info there. you should have a good understanding of autoconf/automake/libtoolize and more ... cameron Kevin Myers wrote: >Thanks very much to Sven for this info. Well, since many of my images are >rather large (in the 400 to 600 megapixel range), maybe I can provide some >of the additional large image testing that is needed. But I have one >problem. I'm running Windows, and can't seem to figure out how to get >started building the GIMP under Windows. Presently I am using the binary >installable 1.2.4 distribution, but I can't even figure out how to compile >it using the source from Tor's web site. As descibed in my previous post, I >can't even get through the first step, which is running ./configure . So, >until I can solve this problem, there is no way that I can start trying to >work with 1.3 . Any help getting my build process off the ground would be >greatly appreciated. > >One more question related to size limits: How many bytes per pixel does the >pixel cache use? I have a sneaking suspicion that the answer is 5 based on >the image sizes where I'm running into problems. That's what ImageMagick >uses for its pixel cache, and I run into problem at almost exactly the same >image size. > >s/KAM > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Sven Neumann" <[email protected]> >To: "Kevin Myers" <[email protected]> >Cc: "gimp developers" <[email protected]>; "gimpwin >developers" <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 3:53 AM >Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP Image Size Limits > > > > >>Hi, >> >>"Kevin Myers" <[email protected]> writes: >> >> >> >>>Are there any known, inherent, limitations on the size of images >>>that may be loaded and processed by the GIMP? >>> >>> >>yes. In GIMP-1.2 the size of the tile-cache The GIMP can handle is >>limited to 2GB (if I remember correctly). There's a similar limit to >>the size of the swap file. >> >>With GIMP-1.3 we tried to remove these limits but the code hasn't seen >>enough testing to state whether the changes work and if there are >>other parts of the code that still need to be changed. >> >> >>Salut, Sven >>_______________________________________________ >>Gimp-developer mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer >> >> > > > >To Post a message, send it to: [email protected] >To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [email protected] > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > -- Please include previous messages in reply, so I can follow the thread, thanks, Cameron --------------------------- Cameron Gregory http://www.flamingtext.com/