Hi, Aurimas wrote a patch that implements it the way that Raphael suggested. Thanks a lot for that, the patch has been committed in the meantime. While reviewing this patch it became evident that the BMP plug-in is one of those evil fellows among the file plug-ins. It allocates a buffer the full size of the image instead of transferring the pixel data to/from the core tile-by-tile or at least in smaller stripes. It does this both for loading and saving. If possible, this should be changed. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer