On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, Jon Nordby wrote:
The Krita guys did at some point plan to use OpenRaster as the native file format (don't know the current viewpoint),
When ora took off as an interchange format, it quickly became apparent that it would never be able to represent everything that can be done in Krita, so no, it won't be the native file format for Krita either. The interchange role is much too important to me to burden ora with all kinds of optional features.
but I don't think this has ever been the plan for GIMP. In my opinion OpenRaster has value as an interchange format. For simple applications like MyPaint using it as a native format is useful, but for advanced applications like GIMP I think it would be more pain than gain. It might even break the exchange promise as simpler applications rarely are able to implement everything more advanced applications would want in a native format.
Right.
I have not seen any interest from proprietary companies. But then again, they rarely communicate with open source projects, so it could be they are paying close attention for all I know. Realistically though, if anyone wants OpenRaster support for Adobe Photoshop I think it is best to just do it yourself. I believe it would be possible with the Photoshop SDK.
We did have an Adobe representative present at the ora discussion at LGM in Brussels, though. But you're right again -- I doubt that photoshop will ever support ora. It would be an interesting challange to implement it as a 3rd party plugin. I think you're right when you think it should be possible. But I am not even going to think of doing it. It would mean coding on Windows. Eek!
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