BMP is a silly format as it is not compressed. Better use PNG (with wxImage
or by using PIL, the Python imaging library).--
Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl>
URL: ICS | Utrecht University [PGP]
Private email: Piet.van.Oostrum@freeler.nl
Thanks Piet, I must agree with you about the BMP format. My big bmp passed from
25 Mb to 308 Kb PNG!!! I divided the 5000x5000 image in 64 625x625 blocks, they
don't use more than 14 Kb of disk space. When loaded in ram however the size of
each single block is still quite big, because they are saved as 24-bit images
(1145 Kb).
Regards,
M.T.