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help system Piers Cornwell <piers.cornwell@bigfoot.com> who has taken the burden to continue this project Karin and Olof started. --Sven
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2.4 KiB
HTML
70 lines
2.4 KiB
HTML
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
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<HTML>
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<HEAD>
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<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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<TITLE>Preferences / Environment</TITLE>
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</HEAD>
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<BODY text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000FF" vlink="#FF0000" alink="#000088">
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<TABLE width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1">
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<TR bgcolor="black">
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<TD width="100%" align="center"><FONT size="+2" color="white">Environment</FONT></TD>
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</TR>
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<TR bgcolor="white" >
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<TD width="100%" align="left"><P>
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<P>
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<DL>
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<DT>
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<EM>Conservative Memory Usage:</EM>
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<DD>
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Gimp is optimized to speed i.e speed is more important than memory usage.
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Enabling Conservative Memory Usage will "optimize" Gimp to use less memory.
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The tradeoff is of course speed but if your system is low on memory then
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it can be an option to use Conservative Memory Usage.
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<DT>
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<EM>Tile Cache Size:</EM>
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<DD>
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This is the most important parameter that Gimp has, if you set it to low
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Gimp will be very slow. There isn't a upper level of how much memory that
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you can give Gimp i.e give Gimp as much as you can. But don't give Gimp more
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that your physical memory (i.e pure memory without swap). In reality you
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have to measure how much memory you usually use and give Gimp a little less
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than the rest of it.
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<DT>
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<EM>Maximum Image Size:</EM>
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<DD>
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Gimp will warn you if you try to create images bigger than this value.
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<DT>
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<DD>
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<DT>
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<EM>Install Colormap:</EM>
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<DD>
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Not used since we use GdkRgb now
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<DT>
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<EM>Colormap Cycling:</EM>
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<DD>
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Still TODO
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<DT>
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<DD>
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<DT>
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<EM>Try to Write a Thumbnail File:</EM>
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<DD>
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By default when you save a image a thumbnail file will be created storing
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a little image of your image. When you mark a image in the file open dialog
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you will see this thumbnail. If you set this option to Never you have to
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press on the thumbnail button in the file open dialog to be able to see a
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thumbnail of your image.
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<DT>
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<EM>"File > Save" saves the image:</EM>
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<DD>
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This is by default set to Always but if you e.g saves your image on a networked
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disk (nfs, smb etc.) then saves some times are slow and saving always isn't
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that necessary. Instead you will only save when the file is really changed.
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<DD>
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</DL>
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<P>
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<A href="index.html">Index</A>
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</TD>
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</TR>
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</TABLE>
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</BODY></HTML>
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