On Tuesday 21 March 2006 11:56, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote: > Am 21.03.06, 08:55 +0100 schrieb Boudewijn Rempt: > > I have read most of the publicly available prior discussion on XCF2 and > > similar efforts, and I know about the shortcomings of that scheme. But: > > > > * zipfile with maindocument and layers in seperate documents is a scheme > > that has proven itself already. > > Having not read too much about past discussions, anyway some questions: > > o Is a zip file seekable in any case?
Yes. > o Zip is prooven to what kind of document content? Layered raster images with exif and icc data and adjustment layers. > o What is with audio, video? I don't know: the prposal is about a standard file format for the interchange of layered raster images, not a general multimedia file format. Of course, the same trick we use for layer binary data could be used for general multimedia content, if needed. -- Boudewijn Rempt http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi
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