Re: [Gimp-user] recording changes

[Gary Aitken <ah dreamchaser org>]

On 04/06/14 02:00, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Gary Aitken wrote:
> > I'm frustrated by large storage requirements for xcf files resulting from
> > processing many jpg image files.  The processing is typically pretty simple,
> > crop, curves, with no touch up.  I don't mind the xcf size for images which
> > required a lot of detail work, but it's crazy for the majority of them.
> > Things which a raw processor encodes in a few KB turn into 60 MB; an 8x
> > factor over the original file size.
> >
> > Are there any plugins, or is any work being done / planned, on some means to
> > save (even a selected set of) operations so the result can be reconstructed
> > from the original?  It would save me many GB of space.

> We don't like it either, which is why it's planned for the future.
> Some foundation has already been laid for that in the code, but it
> will take time. As we are volunteers, not paid developers, we can't
> tell you, when this will be available for end-users.

Thanks for the info, Alexandre.  I understand the volunteer issue.
I'm not complaining, just wanted to know what the current situation was.
Was hoping it was in the pipe for a specific release.

Thanks to the gimp team for all your work.

Gary