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Ian Deaville scribed to us about Help! Huge GIF to handle in n/a

> Hi folks,

> I have a bit of a problem at the moment...

> I need to do some work on a graphics file here.  It was given to me in GIF
> format, and is a 2 colour picture, some 3194x2550 pixels.  The file size is
> 48741 bytes.  I cannot view the picture with MultiView, error message "not
> enough memory available".  (I have 32MB fast ram installed, >27MB free.)  I
> cannot load the picture into ArtEffect, similar error message.

> I have managed to use GIFtoIFF by Mark Podlipec to convert it to an IFF.
> Image size now 3200x2550, file size 1020062 bytes.

> Are there any utilities out there which I can use to shrink this image to a
> reasonable size?  If anyone wants to have a go at it, I will happily mail
> you the GIF original.  Any ideas?

Use the following:

gfxcon.lha         gfx/conv    233472 Image format converter (V1.8c) for most
SwitchGFX11.lha    util/misc   116736 Additional Program for GFXCon by Dirk F
iff256.lha         util/rexx     1024 ARexx script for GfxCon users.

These will do what you want.


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