On 20/10/06, Bob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> OK.  So what's the actual file size of one of my Genuine Fractals
> files?  I know how much space the file takes up on my hard drive.
> But when I open one of these files I get a dialog window asking me
> what size I want to open it to.  If I choose to open it as a 22 MB
> file or if I choose to open it as a 550mMB file, which is the "real"
> file size?  The answer, of course, is neither.  The actual file size
> is how much space the file occupies on my hard drive.

GF coded files are a special case of compression and user interactive
decompression, the real size is still completely dependent on the
pixel dimensions and bit depth of the original source bitmap.

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