Re: [Gimp-developer] GimpCon RFC: Portable XCF

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
for the purposes of GIMP. I agree, though I think we can add all of these through additional tags and not having to redesign... /me wonders if the CinePaint people have any thoughts... Definitely! Leonard -- --- Leonard

Re: [Gimp-developer] GimpCon RFC: Portable XCF

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
. True, but the subset for PNG support is a low barrier for entry. The core of XCF is (potentially) a MUCH higher barrier... Leonard -- --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable XFC

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
part of text layers... Leonard -- --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lazerware.com

Re: [Gimp-developer] GimpCon RFC: Portable XCF

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
and maintained by the libpng group, which is headed by Glenn Randers-Pehrson who is also one of the maintainers (along with myself) of ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick. Leonard -- --- Leonard Rosenthol

[Gimp-developer] PS vs. PDF

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 5:40 PM +0100 8/14/03, Mukund wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 07:45:33PM -0400, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: | Because Postscript is dead. PostScript is far from dead. You would be banishing the entire publishing industry if you say PostScript is dead :-) I guess I should say that Postscript

Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable XFC

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
this as one of those other application developers). Leonard -- --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lazerware.com

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon RFC: Portable XCF

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
heavyweight library to incorporate into a project just for reading/writing files... Leonard -- --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Gimp-developer] GimpCon RFC: Portable XCF

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
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[Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon RFC: Portable XCF

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
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Re: [Gimp-developer] GimpCon RFC: Portable XCF

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
. Where do we draw the line??? Leonard -- --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lazerware.com

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon RFC: Portable XCF

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
... LDR -- --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lazerware.com ___ Gimp-developer mailing

Re: [Gimp-developer] GimpCon RFC: Portable XCF

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
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Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon RFC: Portable XCF

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
is to load GEGL/GIMP data from disk into my own data structures. I do NOT want/need all of your functionality - just want to read the file! Leonard -- --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Gimp-developer] GimpCon RFC: Portable XCF

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
without breaking standards compliance. Worse case is that we add new tags (that we've registered with Adobe) and other readers don't support that information... Leonard -- --- Leonard Rosenthol

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon RFC: Portable XCF

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
follows the rules, TIFF is compatible. If you break the rules, all bets are off... Leonard -- --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Gimp-developer] GimpCon RFC: Portable XCF

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 8:12 PM -0700 8/13/03, Manish Singh wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:53:14PM -0400, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: At 6:51 PM -0700 8/13/03, Manish Singh wrote: Does TIFF support, for example, float16 data, or a CIE XYZ colorspace? Yes to both... Hmm, got a reference to that? It wasn't

Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable XFC

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
!?!? Leonard -- --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lazerware.com ___ Gimp-developer mailing list

Re: [Gimp-developer] Third big serious meeting from GIMPcon

2003-08-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
the related reason here is that many open source projects get their contributors from non-Linux platforms, esp. Windows. And building GIMP/Windows is even more of a nightmare than building GIMP on Linux. Leonard -- --- Leonard

Re: [Gimp-developer] Third big serious meeting from GIMPcon

2003-08-12 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
(which would also mean GIMP in general), you need VC projects. Sure, building from CygWin and MinGW are nice - but that's not how folks work in the real world... LDR -- --- Leonard Rosenthol

Re: [Gimp-developer] GimpCon RFC: Portable XCF

2003-08-11 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
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Re: [Gimp-developer] GimpCon RFC: Portable XCF

2003-08-11 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
. Great - but that's not specific to a file format - we can do that anywhere... Leonard -- --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon RFC: Portable XCF

2003-08-10 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
PSD, I dunno if enough. :/ There are programs out there that generate bad TIFF - for one reason or another. But we already have to deal with that in our native TIFF coder... Leonard -- --- Leonard Rosenthol

Re: [Gimp-developer] CMYK Plugin [was: tentative GIMP 2.0release plans]

2003-07-20 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
than a [c,m,y]=1-[r,g,b] type algorithm... MUCH better... There are also some better algorithms for conversion as well. LDR -- --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP GBR format spec

2003-07-17 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
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[Gimp-developer] A comment on CinePaint (was Re: new-xcf)

2003-07-17 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
soon... Leonard -- --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lazerware.com ___ Gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP GBR format spec

2003-07-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
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Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [CinePaint-dev] GIMP GBR format spec

2003-07-11 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
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Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP GBR format spec

2003-07-11 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 02:34 PM 7/11/2003 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: XML is very well suited to describe the structure of a multi-layered, multi-framed image/animation and it can be used perfectly to embed meta information as well as vector layers, paths and the like. XML namespaces make it easy to add

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [CinePaint-dev] GIMP GBR format spec

2003-07-11 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 06:34 AM 7/11/2003 -0700, Nathan Carl Summers wrote: Oh wait, I take it back. I can think of a image format that retains the spirit of XML: gimpimage commentCreated by the GIMP!/commment layers colorspace=rgb bitdepth=8 layer width=6 height=6 row pixel r=127 g=127 b=127 / pixel

Re: [Gimp-developer] XCF file format

2003-02-03 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
all the majors (including layers (and their attrs), etc. Leonard -- --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lazerware.com

Re: [Gimp-developer] What's the status of mng support?

2002-11-19 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
as many others) and will happily then output .mng files for you. LDR -- --- Leonard Rosentholmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lazerware.com

[Gimp-developer] Re: Dreamworks, Shrek, and the need for 16 Bit

2002-11-03 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 6:27 PM +0100 11/1/02, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote: PNG should be included in this family too, BTW. Any other format? TIFF and PSD also support 16bit data... Leonard -- --- Leonard Rosenthol

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: CMYK 16-bit print developer sought

2002-10-23 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 06:47 PM 10/23/2002 -0700, Robin Rowe wrote: What I meant was print in the magazine/book publishing sense, not gimp-print. A developer knowledgable in the print side of the business would help in building the right 16-bit CMYK stuff. Another option would be enhance the GIMP/.xcf

Re: [Gimp-developer] Interoperability with ImageMagick

2002-08-29 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
in the GIMP and want to modify an image with IM, I do it the hard way: save it, launch IM on it and then reload it in the GIMP. That certainly works... Leonard Maintainer, ImageMagick -- --- Leonard Rosenthol

Re: [Gimp-developer] Photoshop's file formats specs pulled?

2002-07-09 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
minor at best - nothing significant that should effect GIMP. There are still many things that the GIMP has to support in the 4 and 5 formats, let alone 6 and 7. Leonard -- --- Leonard Rosenthol

Re: [Gimp-developer] urgent help?

2002-06-05 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
the representation on the screen, or disk, what? ImageMagick happily reads XCF files, as well as all of the other formats that GIMP supports, so I'm curious what the issue is. Leonard -- --- Leonard Rosenthol

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Opening Photoshop Files

2002-02-10 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 12:41 PM 2/8/2002 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: Leonard Rosenthol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Will it still use FreeType for the actual rendering of the glyphs? And if not, then what? yes, it will use Freetype2 but somewhat hidden behind a Pango layer. Excellent

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Opening Photoshop Files

2002-02-07 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 8:37 PM +0100 2/7/02, Sven Neumann wrote: I hope do be able to complete the new text tool anytime soon and it is supposed to give you even better rendering than gimp-freetype combined with the features of GDynText. Will it still use FreeType for the actual rendering of the glyphs?

[Gimp-developer] Re: XCF-PSD [was (psd plug-in, adam's plug-ins)]

2002-01-18 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 12:40 PM 1/18/2002 +, Adam D. Moss wrote: I'd like to help testing anything related to the psd plug-in, because my projectleads are breathing down my neck about 'incompatibility' with the rest of my designer collegues. I generally use the previous state/version of the plug-in that

[Gimp-developer] Bugs in PSD Reader

2002-01-02 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
Found a couple of bugs (or at least what I believe to be bugs) in the PSD plugin's read/load code. 1) It assumes that all PSD files with layers will have layer mask data, range data and name. it should verify that the extra data length is still valid on those items 2) It doesn't handle

Re: [Gimp-developer] Plugin Request/Hunt

2001-12-23 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 03:08 PM 12/23/2001 +1000, Robert Starr wrote: I dloaded the ImageMagick I tried to use it.. but it seems it's command line only.. That is true - it is command line mostly. There are some basic GUI's for it, but nothing too fancy at this time. Is there a gui for the app

Re: [Gimp-developer] Plugin Request/Hunt

2001-12-22 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 08:16 AM 12/22/2001 +1000, Robert Starr wrote: Here's the lowdown: 1-Select Contact Sheet 2-Dialogue appears asking various options: a- directory/folder containing images to be placed on the contact sheet b- resolution of the contact sheet to be made c- dpi of the contact sheet to be

Re: [Gimp-developer] Current work

2001-12-06 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 07:12 PM 12/5/2001 -0500, Robert L Krawitz wrote: Gimp-print generates the HTML (and .pdf, and .ps) manuals at packaging time. Do keep in mind that using Gnome-Print to generate the PDF files will give you flat documents (ie. no hyperlinks, bookmarks, etc.) which are VERY USEFUL

Re: [Gimp-developer] XCF support added to ImageMagick

2001-12-04 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 06:06 AM 12/4/2001 -0800, Seth Burgess wrote: I think if you make sure to check the version of the XCF, I am pretty sure that I do, but I'll hack up some files and try it out. It already deal with the differences between the old and new headers. Now, I don't expect it to be easy

Re: [Gimp-developer] XCF support added to ImageMagick

2001-12-04 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 12:16 PM 12/4/2001 -0600, Stephen J Baker wrote: (Although it *does* mean that ImageMagick had better not be using any GIMP code to help out it's decode/display of XCF's or it'll be in breach of GPL) No GIMP code - at least not verbatim. We don't use glib and we have our

[Gimp-developer] XCF support added to ImageMagick

2001-11-27 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
I just thought I'd let you folks know that I just checked support for reading (writing will come later) XCF files to the ImageMagick library (http://www.imagemagick.org). Right now you'd need to get it via CVS, BUT it will be part of the standard 5.4.1 distribution due on Friday. Leonard