[lug] Are xcf (gimp) files that much smaller than bmps?

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Monday 31 March 2003 12:57 pm, Andrew Diederich wrote:
> I was playing around with a 3mb bmp file, added a layer.  Since you
> can't save layers in bmps, I guess, I used the gimp native format, xcf. 
> The xcf file is 480kb, the bmp is 3070kb.
>
> Are xcf files really that much better at compression than windows
> bitmaps?

My impression is that windows bmp files are uncompressed--certainly the 
ifle sizes seem to imply that.  And that's usually the meaning of 
"bitmap", anyway.

So if xcf files are compressed at all I would guess, yes, they are that 
much better.

Michael