[kde-linux] ksnapshot saved file size

[Felix Miata]

3On 2009/06/23 14:40 (GMT-0500) Bruce Bales composed:

> On Monday 22 June 2009 23:37:57 Dale wrote:

>> Felix Miata wrote:

>> > On http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde&m=120319601431836&w=2 I asked this before,
>> > but never got a useful answer. Is it true that there is no ability to
>> > configure KSnapshot to make smaller files, e.g. 6- or 8-bit png instead
>> > of 16- or 24-bit or whatever it now does?

>> I think it just takes a pixel for pixel shot.  If you have a small
>> resolution screen then it will be a smaller picture.  If you have a HUGE
>> 1600x1200 or larger, it takes a bigger picture.  I couldn't find any way
>> to configure it on mine either.

>> I guess you could always open the one it took with Gimp and scale it
>> down.  That is what I have done in the past.

> use imagemagick:

>  convert picture.jpg -sample 800 picture8.jpg  to make it 800 horizontal.  

> imagemagick will scale the vertical to match.

I appreciate the time it took Bruce and Dale to answer, but neither answer
has anything to do with the question asked. I know what Gimp and ImageMagick
can do, but the question was explicitly about what KSnapshot can or cannot
do. I should think it might be possible for a recent KSnapshot version to do
what considerably previous KSnapshot versions could do, as explained in the
URL provided in the OP.

I case it wasn't clear, which I think it was, is I want smaller image _file_
sizes only, _not_ smaller images. For all I care about the quality, in most
cases they could be purely gray scale. I usually take screenshots to capture
object relationships (size not important) and sizes (size very important),
not for color fidelity (totally irrelevant usually).
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