In article <Pine.NEB.4.33.0405132205540.24285-100000@agnus.datazap.net>,
	"admin@datazap.net" <admin@datazap.net> writes:
> agnus: {18} gifrsize -s 0.8 Picture1.gif > Picture1_scale.gif
> agnus: {19} ll
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 azick  wheel  10635 May  4 10:48 Picture1.gif
> -rw-r--r--  1 azick  wheel  24570 May 13 14:22 Picture1_scale.gif
> 
> The image that I reduced is now has a file size of over twice the size of
> the original. Does anyone know why, ...

Probably because the new image has more color or isn't compressed. You
could use the NetPBM package which provides finer control when doing
this kind of operation.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/