Re: [Pan-users] Re: Error saving large JPEG image

[Paul Crawford]

Per Hedeland wrote:
> Pan's decode-for-viewing is completely separate from the
> decode-for-saving - the former uses gmime stuff (I fixed some bugs with
> the opposite problem, i.e. saving worked but viewing didn't, in the
> past).

Can you tell me where in the code each is done? That way I *might* just 
be able to fix this.

> I assume that there is some good reason for this rather strange
> arrangement, but don't remember if I figured it out. I guess it would
> not be a very good idea to decode e.g. big movies into memory (what
> gmime does), nor to decode things that really will be displayed into a
> file and loading it afterwards - and maybe there is no single package
> that can do either/or.

Yes, I can see why you need several different approaches to decoding.

Regards,
Paul