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Setting preferences for saving png Pere Pujal i Carabantes 11 Apr 09:25
  Setting preferences for saving png Torsten Neuer 11 Apr 12:01
   Setting preferences for saving png Pere Pujal i Carabantes 11 Apr 16:44
Pere Pujal i Carabantes
2008-04-11 09:25:56 UTC (almost 17 years ago)

Setting preferences for saving png

Hi all!

I usually have to save transparent pixels of PNGs, but time to time don't save them just to compare the difference in size.

The problem is that default preferences get changed, and if I just save instead of save as, I lose my work on the transparent parts of the image.

Is there a way to hardcode preferences for saving a png?

Thanks Pere

Torsten Neuer
2008-04-11 12:01:11 UTC (almost 17 years ago)

Setting preferences for saving png

Hi,

I usually have to save transparent pixels of PNGs, but time to time don't save them just to compare the difference in size.

The problem is that default preferences get changed, and if I just save instead of save as, I lose my work on the transparent parts of the image.

Is there a way to hardcode preferences for saving a png?

Not one that I know of.

But I think you should save your *work* as .xcf anyway.

All other image formats are for what you want to do with the images after having them processed with Gimp. If you switch to using .xcf as you primary file format and only export to .png (or whatever) if you are done with your work, you won't lose anything.

Torsten

Pere Pujal i Carabantes
2008-04-11 16:44:44 UTC (almost 17 years ago)

Setting preferences for saving png

El dv 11 de 04 de 2008 a les 12:01 +0200, en/na Torsten Neuer va escriure:

Hi,

I usually have to save transparent pixels of PNGs, but time to time don't save them just to compare the difference in size.

The problem is that default preferences get changed, and if I just save instead of save as, I lose my work on the transparent parts of the image.

Is there a way to hardcode preferences for saving a png?

Not one that I know of.

But I think you should save your *work* as .xcf anyway.

Yes, I currently save as xcf.

However, the editing of transparent pixels is handled by a script (mktpstamp) as the end step to save a png from a layer in the xcf file, and sometimes I want to improve the results of this script, hence I am editing directly the png file.

I've tried a call to file-png-set-defaults in the script I use, but even if I see ~/gimp-2.4/parasiterc writed when quitting gimp, this doesn't affect the current session.

For now, I've created a simple script that just calls file-png-save2 whith the parameters I need and use it for saving.

Thanks Pere