[Gimp-user] Fwd: Image resizing based upon image content

[Doug]

Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 16:28 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
>
>   
>>> Having tried out Liquid Rescale I'm very impressed. But does anyone have 
>>> an idea about the size of image it can deal with in terms of memory 
>>> requirements (I presume the Gimp setting Tile Cache size)?
>>>
>>> I've crashed it with a 700MB jpg setting Tile Cache Size to 3 GB (using 
>>> Linux Mandriva 2007.0)
>>>       
>> There should be best/worst-case estimates in the paper, but if not, it 
>> probably depends on the algorithm.
>>     
>
> It also very much depends on how the plug-in is implemented. If it
> transfers the full image data from GIMP to the plug-in, then it's
> basically unusable with large images. Unfortunately quite a lot of
> plug-ins are implemented that way.
>
>
> Sven
>   
I don't see any information about the implementation.
If that's the case, it's a great pity - it's a very nice plug-in :-(

Doug