large screenshots (2MB+)

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

On 2017-11-16 11:36, thufir wrote:
> How do I control screenshot compression?

I'm *GUESSING* you're not controlling compression, so much as file 
format.  I believe that .PNG uses lossless compression, whereas .JPG 
will happily compress 10x, because it's lossy.

$.02,

-Ken


> thufir at dur:~/Pictures$
> thufir at dur:~/Pictures$ ls -hal
> total 5.2M
> drwxr-xr-x   3 thufir thufir  60K Nov 16 08:32 .
> drwx--x---+ 72 thufir thufir  20K Nov 16 07:47 ..
> drwxrwxr-x   2 thufir thufir 4.0K Nov 14 05:03 .comments
> -rw-rw-r--   1 thufir thufir 145K Nov 14 05:44 Screenshot from 
> 2017-11-14
> 05-44-25.png
> -rw-rw-r--   1 thufir thufir 2.5M Nov 16 08:29 Screenshot from 
> 2017-11-16
> 08-29-57.png
> -rw-rw-r--   1 thufir thufir 2.5M Nov 16 08:32 Screenshot from 
> 2017-11-16
> 08-32-33.png
> thufir at dur:~/Pictures$
> 
> 
> 
> I changed some sort of setting somewhere, because now screenshot file
> size is through the roof.  the "old" screenshots are ~145k, more 
> recently
>> 2M which is a huge jump.
> 
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Thufir