hello, I would like to finalize a minimal core of the OpenRaster specification around January.
The reason is that I have implemented layers in MyPaint, and since there is no plan to add all the heavy "image manipulation" features that other programs do better anyway, the users would greatly benefit if they could just open their images in GIMP/Krita/etc for postprocessing. My requirements are much lower than where OpenRaster aims. I think it covers what Cyrille has called "OpenRaster / Long-term Archiving". I see OpenRaster mostly as an export file format; I have no ambition to implement many new features just to be able to import all possible OpenRaster documents. The other way around, I think the consensus is that any MyPaint-only extensions (like per-stroke tablet event logs) should not be stored redundantly inside those documents? Either way, for most MyPaint users this minimal OpenRaster should be good enough as their primary file format. The OpenRaster specification draft in the wiki did cover all my needs (one PNG for each layer) except for the file layout. I have specified this in the wiki now, with a sample .ora file and a link to my (fully working) save/load implementation: http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/OpenRaster So - is this something that GIMP and Krita and other projects would be happy to load and stay compatible with as it is, when OpenRaster is implemented? What is missing/wrong/incomplete? What should the mime type be? Should it have a different filename extension to distinguish itself from other OpenRaster formats? bye, Martin _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
