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Re: How big is your VEC dir?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 25 May 1999 07:18:19 GMT
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On Tue, 25 May 1999 04:09:59 GMT, blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve Bliss) wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:40:41 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@geocities.com> wrote:
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> > ...Mine is 79 Mb in size after 9902 parts update. For speed, I don't want
> > to go GIF or JPEG, and I'm not too crazy about reducing the rendering size
> > for the VEC.
> >
> > Question #1: Will Image Magick convert 24-bit BMPs to 8-bit?
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> > Question #2: Has anyone converted their VEC dir to GIF or JPEG, and how
> > much slower is it really?
>
> Just to provide a more-or-less final answer to this question, Image Magick
> includes mogrify.exe, which is designed to do mass file conversions. Using
> mogrify, I converted all the VEC images to BMP-RLE format. Which took the
> VEC down to 6.5MB. That's with shading turned on in LDLite, 80% oblique
> view on most parts, baseplates at 45% above view.
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> The command line is:
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> cd \ldraw\vec
> [IM path]\mogrify -colors 256 -compress RunlengthEncoded *.bmp
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> Then wait several minutes. If you're really bored, monitor progress with
> Explorer (watch the directory size go down).
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> This has a double-plus good impact on the load time of the VEC, especially
> of the Baseplates category.
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> Steve
Thanks for that, Steve. Another thing I need to do.
-- Terry K --
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| (...) Just to provide a more-or-less final answer to this question, Image Magick includes mogrify.exe, which is designed to do mass file conversions. Using mogrify, I converted all the VEC images to BMP-RLE format. Which took the VEC down to 6.5MB. (...) (27 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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