Re: [Gimp-developer] image indexed mode, major hole

2007-06-06 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Sven Neumann If someone would write a PNG save plug-in that actually uses the full alpha channel information for indexed images, One cannot do this, in general, because an indexed PNG stores a single alpha value for each palette entry. An image with an unrestricted alpha channel would

Re: [Gimp-developer] image indexed mode, major hole

2007-06-06 Thread David Gowers
On 6/7/07, Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripsit Sven Neumann One cannot do this, in general, because an indexed PNG stores a single alpha value for each palette entry. An image with an unrestricted alpha channel would most likely lead to more color/alpha combinations than the 256

[Gimp-developer] Two new build bugs

2007-06-06 Thread Daniel Richard G.
I'd like to draw attention to two bugs I encountered in building GIMP, both having to do with my slightly-less-than-conventional approach to same: srcdir vs. builddir fixes for out-of-source-tree builds http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444960 Empty SCHEME_EXPORT

[Gimp-developer] Building imagemap plugin requires flex?

2007-06-06 Thread David Gowers
Well, only if the source dependency for the various lexers has changed (eg. recently with the The GIMP - GIMP global replacement). A rebuilt version of the relevant generated files should probably also be updated into SVN before release. Currently, flex version 2.5.33 or higher seems to be