Re: [HACKERS] Re: map

> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> > Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > >> I prefer the 'flat-globe' for what you are attempting to do...its also
> > >> easier to see...you don't have to "follow the dot"...
> > 
> > > OK, new map, older dots, but they now have fuzzy edges.  Much better.
> > 
> > I like the look better, but (putting on my graphics-guy hat) that GIF
> > is *huge*.  175K is a tad of an excessive download for a web-page
> > frammish. 
> 
> 175K?  It started at 24K, a load/save in xv brings it back to 24K.

Let me look at that.  Seems to have grown somehow.  It is the
transparency that is causing it.  I am using 'convert' to add the
transparency.  Have other people seen 'transparancy' increasing the file
size?



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