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The file size difference is due to a non-lossy compression of the lines in the IFF framestore image (the same run-length line compression used in IFF images since 1988). In toaster 2.0, paint saved framestores with this compression on, but the switcher saved them w/out compression (for 722k files every time), for faster loading. I believe the latest switcher saves framestores with compression. I can accept your claim that different versions have different quality, but the compression/file-size issue really isn't related to the quality except insofar as the compressed framestores had been converted to RGB, then re-encoded and saved as framestores from paint (see previous post).