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

[Ed Hill]

On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 10:57, 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?

Hi Andrew,

Yes!  The "bmp" files have *no* compression.

Ed

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