Hi! Still going on with SwatchBooker, I'm now analysing gradients file formats <http://www.selapa.net/swatches/gradients/fileformats.php> and as I was thinking at my own format for these, there were some things triggering me... And I'd really like to have some other's opinions about them...
* I don't see the point in Foreground/Background colors <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01272.html> ;-) I see even less the point in having gradients swatches defined with Foreground/Background colors... This is a "feature" you can find in Photoshop and Gimp gradients. For sure I don't see how it would be useful in an exchange format... * In my idea, a gradient is defined by stops and the way to go from one to the other. All other things like shape, angle, center, etc. are how you use the gradient, not the gradient itself. Which means I would leave out these features when importing from OpenOffice.org or Flash. * I think the "segment" concept of Gimp isn't really interesting since the position of a segment start has to be the same as the end of the previous one, and in 99% of the cases, the color is the same too. For the 1% left, you can create another stop at the same position. * I'm not sure yet how to deal with transparency. My first option would be to say: we're talking about color gradient and transparency isn't a color attribute, it's an object or painter attribute, so we leave it out completely. There's the Adobe's option to have a transparency gradient next to the color gradient but then again, why not really differentiate things and really separate them... But at least it would cover that feature because I really think including transparency into the color definition is wrong. * Is there any free software dealing with noise gradients? Even though I thought a lot about these things, I really appreciate contradiction so start shooting ;-) Olivier _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
