Introduction

The SGI plug-in provides SGI image file load & save modules for The GIMP. The plug-in supports GRAY, GRAYA, RGB, and RGBA color modes.

Source Code

Using the SGI Plug-In

Figure 1 shows the SGI save options window.

The Parameter Settings buttons control how much compression is applied to the image:

  • No Compression stores the image raw or verbatim.
  • RLE Compression stores the image as a sequence of repeated or non-repeated pixels.
  • Advanced RLE checks for duplicate lines and channels in the image and sometimes produces dramatically smaller images but also takes longer to save.

Figure 1 - The SGI plug-in window