[Paraview] screenshots in png format are big

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

It's okay. Users are not expected to choose any project.

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Gena Bug <archaerolog at mail.ru> wrote:
> http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=14426
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> (Did I choose the wrong Project -- ParaViewPro? Should it be ParaViS?)
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> On 11/26/2013 08:52 PM, Burlen Loring wrote:
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>> it could be a bug if you saw a big increase in file size of saved png
>> images between versions when rendering exactly the same scene. It'd be
>> helpful if you could create a bug report, with steps to reproduce, and
>> two png images that are different size.
>>
>> On 11/25/2013 05:24 PM, Gena Bug wrote:
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>>> On 11/26/2013 05:03 AM, Burlen Loring wrote:
>>>>
>>>> that's generally expected because png's compression is loss-less while
>>>> jpg's lossy. png uses zlib which does have a few options for adjusting
>>>> compression vs decode/encode speed but looks like they're not exposed in
>>>> PV.
>>>
>>> So is this a bug? For me it is because in previous version of PV
>>> (4.0.1) I'm getting much smaller png file (almost 3 times smaller than
>>> jpg).
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/25/2013 02:42 PM, Gena Bug wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>> I've noticed that screenshot in png format has too big size compared
>>>>> to, for example, jpg. Tried to play with output image quality -- size
>>>>> didn't changed. For jpg all works as expected...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> P.S. ParaView 4.1.0-RC1 64-bit downloaded from the site, OS: Debian
>>>>> testing amd64
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