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Subject: [OM] Re: The Gimp file sizes
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 08:11:01 +0100
Frugal, thanks for that.   Do you use it on a Windoze machine or a  
Mac?  I am interested in trying out ImageMagick, but I don't have  
time at the moment to learn to use the Terminal to unpack and compile  
the programme in OSX.

Chris
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C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
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On 17 Jul 2005, at 03:32, Andrew Dacey wrote:

> I think I've already mentioned this before but I'll send it again. I
> haven't used The Gimp very much but I do use ImageMagick for my jpeg
> conversion. I like to batch convert my full-size TIFF files into jpeg
> files of various sizes for my website. I wrote up a perl script that
> uses ImageMagick (which has great Perl tools btw) to handle the batch
> processing. I've been amazed by the the quality I can get with this
> while still getting a very small file. I know that ImageMagick uses
> libjpeg and strongly suspect that The Gimp does as well (I'd have to
> double check to be certain). I suspect that libjpeg has a really good
> implementation of jpeg compression (although you'd think that Adobe
> could manage something).
>


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