Re: Graphic Images

[Matthew Kirkwood]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Dom Lachowicz wrote:

> > > 3) Just not support GIF, JPEG, TIFF, XPM, XBM, etc... This is
> > > absolutely horrible.
> >
> >The alternative isn't a lot better -- it adds significant
> >complexity (though not on the surface) to the file format,
> >and raises the bar for new ports/platforms.
>
> I fail to see why. One the surface, we would see:
>
> <d mimetype="image/png"> -> <d mimetype="image/tiff">
>
> Which doesn't look all too complex to me.

Abiword's file format already includes the PNG spec by
reference.  Thankfully, Abiword includes PNG support by
reference implementation :-) so nobody has to worry too
much about that.

Including the tiff spec, too, would be pretty horrible.

Matthew.