Follow up on this, a 1162x706 bitmap, when saving to disk, take a maximum of 2.34mb with bmp extention.
When saving to a binvar, the binvar contains 3.12mb (switch -q and -b are ignored when saving to a binvar).
Thanks for the feedback. I have not been able to reproduce this here so far.
Well, Talon's original suggestion was implicitely wanting a png format, so I believe the current drawsave -v won't work for him.
Ah, right. I didn't see that.
It looks like this is going to take a lot more work to make it usable. I have reverted this change for now and have added it to my to-do list.
