Re: [Gimp-developer] optional scaling in the save dialog?

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On Friday 18 February 2005 14:17, Mateusz Misiorny wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am currently working on a poster, and it's huge (from the point of
> view of the amount of memory I have ;) ). Once in a while I have to
> post it to the mailing list for my people to see if they like it and
> tell me what to change. Every time I want to mail it I first have to
> save it (.xcf), then scale it down, save as jpg then undo the scaling
> or just close and load again. So I thought it would be great if there
> was an option in the save dialog to choose the size you want to save
> the image in. It could be hidden in the "Advanced Options" or
> something so that usually it wouldn't bother you.
> What do you think about this? Should I put up a reuqest on bugzilla for
> that? It shouldn't be too hard to implement, since it's just one more
> operation during saving (like flattening or so) and it would require
> copying the Scale Image dialog somewhere to the Save Dialog. It would
> save you undo memory, and time.
>

I don't think it's necessary. One can always write a small GIMP script that 
uses the PDB entries, to do all of this at once. If you want, I can show you 
how to write one, if you be more specific about what exactly you want to do, 
in your case.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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