[oXygen-user] Big Graphic Causes "Restart with more memory" Loop

[Eliot Kimber]

Radu Coravu wrote:
> Hi Eliot,
> 
> The image is actually 9350 X 10288 pixels with 24 bits of depth.
> Expanded in memory this should occupy at least 288 MBytes (9350 x 10288 
> x 3 bytes).
> We opened it with a regular image viewer and this is actually the amount 
> it actually needed to display the image.
> So Oxygen would need at least 400 MBs for the same image (300 for the 
> image and 100 for the editor itself).
> Scaling the picture is not actually an easy task to do because the image 
> needs to be loaded fully in memory before scaling it.

Yow--I had no idea.

So clearly the best you can do is just not load it and provide some 
indicator that the picture is too big to show.

I suppose you could span a new JVM to do downsampling to make it 
viewable but that hardly seems worth the effort.

Cheers,

Eliot


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