[Pipet Devel] rfc for loci web pages

[Lapointe, David]

There is a Perl-Gimp module for just that purpose. See a recent issue of The
Perl Journal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Van Domselaar [mailto:gvd at redpoll.pharmacy.ualberta.ca]
> Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 6:46 PM
> To: pipet-devel at bioinformatics.org
> Subject: Re: [Pipet Devel] rfc for loci web pages
> 
> 
> and use 1/4-sized backgrounds.  (But 219 images?!  That's a lot of
> > resizing.)  Then the browser would only be downloading ~10 
> kB in graphics for
> > each page.  Most modems will do that in 2 seconds.  I used 
> the GIMP to reduce
> > the backgrounds, BTW.
> 
> may be a prob. I'm pretty sure you can run gimp from command 
> line. It may 
> be possible to write a script (script-fu?) to resize the backgrounds.
> 
> > 
> > Check out the huge graphics that VA Linux just put up on their site:
> > 
> >     http://www.valinux.com/
> > 
> > For some reason, downloading the VA pages takes a lot of 
> processing power from
> > my CPU.
> > 
> 
> Yeah mine too. From that perspective, I think our pages are pretty 
> efficient :-)
> 
There are only 5 or 6 colors in that image, ie very few transitions so RLE
compresses the image temendoulsy. GIFs are great for that. The background
image is 1700 x 1300

David Lapointe, Ph.D.
Research Computing Manager
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