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GIMP crashes when opening png on mac - blogsofwardotme - 07-30-2025
Hi, I know opening png is an issue, but all the help is for windows. Anybody can open png on mac sonoma 14.7.6?
Here is all I have: my png is almost open, see the blue bar, and, as soon as I press Convert, it crashes. I also tried Keep, same thing.
Tried a million times so it was not an accident.
While I am here, what is the best size in pix to uplload a screenshot, I am down at 800 X 800 jpg and it's still telling me it's too large.
Thank you.
RE: GIMP crashes when opening png on mac - Ofnuts - 07-30-2025
For JPEG and PNG the limit is 500K. PNG size depends heavily on contents (text, icons, CGI and flat areas compress very well), but if there is a significant amount of photo-style image the JPG is a better option. Note that we don't need you whole screen, your Gimp window(s) are enough.