discuss: flowcharts
Subject:
Re: Flowcharts
From:
Jaqui Greenlees ####@####.####
Date:
9 Apr 2005 23:27:58 -0000
Message-Id: <42586563.8060304@telus.net>
Machtelt Garrels wrote:
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> Hello everybody,
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> One of the remarks about the flowcharts
> (tille.xalasys.com/training/tldp/flowcharts.php) was that the images were
> huge. I tried to scale them with gimp, and now they are even bigger:
>
> [tille@localhost tille]$ ls -la tldp-*
> - -rw-r--r-- 1 tille tille 39209 Apr 8 20:42 tldp-maintenance-flowchart.png
> - -rw-rw-r-- 1 tille tille 87853 Apr 8 20:52 tldp-maintenance-flowchart-small.png
> - -rw-r--r-- 1 tille tille 41062 Apr 8 20:42 tldp-publishing-flowchart.png
> - -rw-rw-r-- 1 tille tille 90408 Apr 8 20:51 tldp-publishing-flowchart-small.png
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> How is that possible? There are less pixels in the *-small.png images...
>
> Tille.
>
I've noticed that with the gimp images are frquently larger than they
have to be ( file size )
I personally use corel's photo-paint for image work, I have better
control over disk space for each image.
( and I much preffer the interface )
I know it was available free for a while, after corel stopped producing
the draw suite and corel linux.
( I have both the .deb and .rpm versions on disk )
the alternative method to reduce file size is reduce dpi levels.
an image of 120 by 90 at 120 dpi is larger than 120 by 90 at 72 dpi.
quality reduction doing this, but for web graphics the trade is quality
for download speed / file size. ( as you know )
Jaqui
