Hi Mark,

Sorry - we don't have it.

It wouldn't be hugely difficult - you'd nee a plug-in that can resize, index, save as png, save as gif, save as jpg, with a quality slider, that would show file size and a decent preview for the different formats. But we don't have it.

If anyone knows of a decent plug-in that does, I'd be delighted to hear about it.

Cheers,
Dave.

Mark Sargent wrote:

Hi All,

am a rather experienced Linux user for the past 2yrs or so, but, not much with Gimp. I used to use Fireworks/Photoshop on Windows some time back, and am wondering where within Gimp I can just save as for web, and it allows me to resize etc. I can't seem to find that option anywhere in the menus. All I see is, save, save as, save a copy, save as template. I have a 14.5mb file that I need to get to under 500kb or less. Could someone point this non-gui fool in the right direction? Cheers.

Mark Sargent.

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On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 16:03 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:

Hi All,

am a rather experienced Linux user for the past 2yrs or so, but, not much with Gimp. I used to use Fireworks/Photoshop on Windows some time back, and am wondering where within Gimp I can just save as for web, and it allows me to resize etc. I can't seem to find that option anywhere in the menus. All I see is, save, save as, save a copy, save as template. I have a 14.5mb file that I need to get to under 500kb or less. Could someone point this non-gui fool in the right direction? Cheers.

Store it in .jpg or .png format. By setting the quality parameters you can influence the size.

Regards,

What format your file is? BMP? TIFF? If so, just saving to jpg would make the trick.

Mark Sargent wrote:

Hi All,

am a rather experienced Linux user for the past 2yrs or so, but, not much with Gimp. I used to use Fireworks/Photoshop on Windows some time back, and am wondering where within Gimp I can just save as for web, and it allows me to resize etc. I can't seem to find that option anywhere in the menus. All I see is, save, save as, save a copy, save as template. I have a 14.5mb file that I need to get to under 500kb or less. Could someone point this non-gui fool in the right direction? Cheers.

Mark Sargent.

On Wednesday 05 April 2006 01:03, Mark Sargent wrote:

am a rather experienced Linux user for the past 2yrs or so, but, not much with Gimp. I used to use Fireworks/Photoshop on Windows some time back, and am wondering where within Gimp I can just save as for web, and it allows me to resize etc. I can't seem to find that option anywhere in the menus. All I see is, save, save as, save a copy, save as template. I have a 14.5mb file that I need to get to under 500kb or less. Could someone point this non-gui fool in the right direction? Cheers.

Well, if you're a non-gui fool, I'd suggest a non-gui tool. I'd use imagemagick, something like:

convert infile.bmp -resize 500x500 -quality 75 outfile.jpg

ImageMagick uses the file extension on the output to decide what type of image compression to use, so it will save as a JPEG. The -resize option by default will not stretch your image so the above will resize your image to be at most 500 pixels on each side. Finally the -quality is used by the JPEG compressor and takes a number between 0 and 100. Smaller numbers give you worse images, but 75 is a good tradeoff which gives you good image quality and good compression.

You can easily play with the numbers to get larger or smaller image sizes.

If you do want to use the GIMP (certainly not a bad choice), you should use Image->Scale Image to shrink the resolution down, then Save As and enter a file name with a .jpg extension. The GIMP will then prompt you for a quality level and if you click the "Show Preview in image window" you can see the effects of dragging it back and forth, and you can also see the file size right undernath the quality slider.

Have fun,

Shawn.