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« on: May 28, 2012, 01:48:08 AM »

I just realized something cool: GIMP supports (opens and saves to) compressed XCF files with the GZIP and BZIP2 compressions. I don't know since when, but GIMP 2.6 works and probably so does 2.alien but make sure you have the file-compressor plugin (I have yet to try the 2.8 release).

Here are some example compressions:
  • example1.xcf: 1,2 MB (1.167.554 byte)
  • example1.xcf.gz: 666,7 kB (666.746 byte)
  • example1.xcf.bz2: 351,2 kB (351.215 byte)

  • example2.xcf: 3,2 MB (3.244.705 byte)
  • example2.xcf.gz: 595,0 kB (594.972 byte)
  • example2.xcf.bz2: 541,7 kB (541.681 byte)

So I guess we can save a lot of storage and bandwidth if all the XCF files in the SVN would be compressed with either GZIP or BZIP2.
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« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2012, 07:16:18 AM »

Very nice!

If it's only a bzip2 compression, then I think someone can simply make a bash script to convert existing XCF files. This would be a lot more convenient that using GIMP (although I think that GIMP can also be used in batch).
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« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2012, 08:20:04 AM »

Code:
find -depth -name "*.xcf" -exec svn rm --keep-local {} \; -exec bzip2 -9 {} \; -exec svn add {}.bz2 \;
Something like this?
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« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2012, 05:17:32 AM »

Yes this should do the trick, thank's Grey Matter Smiley
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