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Bug 88361 - use marked area for creating palette during RGB->Indexed conversion
use marked area for creating palette during RGB->Indexed conversion
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: General
1.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: Future
Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-07-16 16:44 UTC by Helge Hielscher
Modified: 2010-06-29 18:56 UTC
See Also:
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Description Helge Hielscher 2002-07-16 16:44:33 UTC 
Often when I do a RGB - indexed conversion with optimal palette I do care
only about the colors in some parts of the image.

So it would be nice if GIMP would only use the marked part of the image to
create the palette.

Other bugs that deal with improving RGB-indexed conversion are
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66261
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66258
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66257
Comment 1 Sven Neumann 2002-07-16 17:04:46 UTC 
This has been requested several times. Adam (who developed the
conversion routine) has hacked up a new conversion algorithm for
gimp-1.3 and claims that the new algo is good enough to make such
user interaction necessary. However I think we should consider this
feature for gimp-1.3.
Comment 2 Tomas Mraz 2003-07-25 12:48:19 UTC 
You probably mean s/necessary/unnecessary/

Moving to Future to cut the noncritical enhancements for the feature
freeze.
Comment 3 Adam D. Moss 2003-07-25 12:55:17 UTC 
n.b. I don't recall making any such claim -- simply that the ideal
algorithm wouldn't need user-hints.  We're not close to the ideal
algorithm yet... but the new convertor brings us closer to converging
upon it.
Comment 4 Martin Nordholts 2010-06-29 18:56:34 UTC 
This has not had a single duplicate in 7 years, it is about a system we will phase out (the image mode "indexed image" will go away eventually), and it's not an important feature. No point in having this open without a patch attached.