On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Sven Neumann wrote: > Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:19:29 +0100 > From: Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Luca Casagrande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] ECW file support. > > Hi, > > Luca Casagrande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there a way to enable ECW support in The Gimp? > > May I ask you to explain what ECW support is?
>From what I can tell ECW (Enhanced Compression Wavelet) is a lossey wavelet compression scheme (either that or Extreme Championship Wrestling, I hate acronyms). Due to the high compression rates it seems to have gained some suppport in fields such as GIS (mapping) where images can be extremely large. I managed to find a similar questions in the list archives: http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/lists/gimp-developer/2001-May/014762.html There does seem to be a library for ECW support but a bit of searching suggests it may not be GPL compatible, but maybe proprietary plugins are possible with the GNU Image Manipulation Program? (Since photoshop filters are supported using PSPI I guess they must be possible but I imagine the gimp developers would not want to encourage more proprietary software.) Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
