[Gllug] Splitting image into (many) tiles.

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On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Kim Hawtin moaned:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 05:53:44PM -0000, Zverina, David wrote:
>> I would like to split 21600x21600 image into many tiles. Has anyone heard of
>> any tools which will do this and work on files this big? (This pretty much
>> excludes any tools which try to do this with GUI interface).
> 
> try convert in the imagemagic package.

I think it more likely that the GIMP will be able to do
it. ImageMagick's tools suck the whole image into memory and chew on it;
the GIMP can, IIRC, work mostly off disk, which is what you want here.

(Disclaimer: info may be outdated.)

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