RLE images

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Mon Jul 14 19:06:59 EDT 2014


On 7/14/2014, 4:24 PM, Richmond wrote:

> "Open the paint tools in RR and use the eraser to click each image,
> then, immediately click undo: this converts all images into internal
> bitmap format. However this means that the files grow to about twice
> their original size."
>
> So . . .  presumably if that still goes on the way to check is:
>
> find out an imported image's size,
>
> do the 'thing' with the eraser,
>
> find out the imported image's size again:
>
> if it has doubled then it is probably now RLE.

Good suggestion, it doesn't double but it grows by about 1/3. So it 
appears images are saved into the stack in the original format.

If anyone has definitive knowledge, please say. Otherwise I'll go with this.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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