Faster conversion

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yeller

Faster conversion

Post by yeller »

Hello,

I'm trying to convert a tiff to jpeg. The reason why I want to do this is becuase the original tiff is 12M in size. And since it is being transmitted across the internet, it will take a long time for that file to be transmitted. The jpeg I create from the tiff is about 5M. Part of the problem is that it's taking me 8 seconds to create the jpeg. Is there anything I can do to speed up the creation of this jpeg?

I've tried reducing the quality but that didn't help.

The tiff is LZW compressed

Thank You
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Re: Faster conversion

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For faster processing make sure you have a modern version of ImageMagick since recent versions have performance improvements. Next up is adding more memory to your system and finally run on a multi-core system. ImageMagick runs on multiple processors if they are available. However, if your are just converting TIFF to JPEG, that particular workflow is single threaded.
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