[PLUG] GIMP-2: "Thinning" an Image

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Don Buchholz wrote:

> Saving to PNG and JPG formats allow you to specify a compression factor. 
> You can also toggle an "interlaced" setting.  IIRC, the interlacing effect
> feeds the browser a coarse image (every other line?) which it can begin to
> paint, and then as the rest of the data is retrieved the image begins to
> sharpen up.

Don,

   Thanks to all of you.

   I discovered that while the GIMP reports "1.2M background" the image file
size is only 23K. What the higher value represents I've no idea, but the
image does load quickly so it's a non-issue.

Rich

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