Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-10 Thread Michael Schumacher
Carol Spears wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:27:40AM +, Eric Pierce wrote: Implementing the import/export of a dynamic text layer from psd would be a nice addition though. someone just needs to do this, and i think that someone said that they could do this -- someone needs to just

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-10 Thread Simon Budig
Gregbair ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anyway, Fireworks can import PSD files with the text layers. I'm 101% positive Adobe didn't tell Macromedia how to do this, so if Fireworks can, maybe some smart GIMP person can. I am pretty sure, that Macromedia licensed the current PSD specification from

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-10 Thread David Neary
Hi Greg, Gregbair wrote: And, no they don't publish the extensions. Anyway, Fireworks can import PSD files with the text layers. I'm 101% positive Adobe didn't tell Macromedia how to do this, so if Fireworks can, maybe some smart GIMP person can. It's not quite that straightforward.

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-10 Thread Duncan Lithgow
I am pretty sure, that Macromedia licensed the current PSD specification from Adobe. They can afford to sign a NDA and it is probably relatively cheap compared to the efforts to reverse engineer it. Bye, Simon Just thought I'd mention that Autodesk bought Macromedia - and Autodesk

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-10 Thread Jakub Steiner
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 03:08 +0100, Simon Budig wrote: Eric Pierce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [MM Fireworks] He told me that the default file format is png! I called him a bold faced lier, but he swears up and down that png is the default format. I asked him about layers, and he said the pngs

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-10 Thread Jeffrey McBeth
Quoting Jakub Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 03:08 +0100, Simon Budig wrote: Eric Pierce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [MM Fireworks] He told me that the default file format is png! I called him a bold faced lier, but he swears up and down that png is the default format. I asked

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Michael Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IIRC, one of the prerequisites for this is an API for text layers. Currently, all you can do is to add text in a new layer or a new floating selection. Right. The PSD plug-in would have to be able to create a text layer based on the

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-09 Thread Jakub Steiner
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 20:03 -0800, Carol Spears wrote: while i have no idea what the developers are doing, either as a group or individually (it is always just a guess about everything and anything, not just gimp stuff), i always thought that they kept the ability to read psd to a minimum to

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-09 Thread Alan Horkan
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Carol Spears wrote: Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:03:30 -0800 From: Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jakub Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED], GIMPUser Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:40:13AM

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-09 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:15:36PM +0100, Jakub Steiner wrote: On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 20:03 -0800, Carol Spears wrote: while i have no idea what the developers are doing, either as a group or individually (it is always just a guess about everything and anything, not just gimp stuff), i

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-09 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
Hi. So. TIFF format can have layers, and that is documented (although just using the 'normal' blending mode). Can Photoshop work with layered TIFF's? I think the support for layers in TIFFs is a lot easier to achieve than trying to figure out the PSD file, since the TIFF standard is

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-09 Thread Eric Pierce
One of the admins at my work purportedly uses Macormedia's Fireworks for raster image editing. He told me that the default file format is png! I called him a bold faced lier, but he swears up and down that png is the default format. I asked him about layers, and he said the pngs that

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-09 Thread Simon Budig
Eric Pierce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [MM Fireworks] He told me that the default file format is png! I called him a bold faced lier, but he swears up and down that png is the default format. I asked him about layers, and he said the pngs that Fireworks saves can DO LAYERS. I haven't seen it

RE: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-09 Thread Gregbair
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Budig Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:09 PM To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd PNG can handle custom application specific

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-08 Thread Jakub Steiner
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 19:41 -0800, Carol Spears wrote: there are differences between the native photoshop files and the native gimp files. gimp can handle different sized layers and other things. I'm not too certain Photoshop doesn't. In fact, I believe Photoshop simply doesn't expose the

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-08 Thread Michael Schumacher
Jakub Steiner wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 19:41 -0800, Carol Spears wrote: it would be nice if everyone would stop making psd files since not everyone can use psd. In many cases people just want to convert their old work. They don't use proprietary formats by ignorance, but simply

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-08 Thread Geoffrey
Michael Schumacher wrote: Jakub Steiner wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 19:41 -0800, Carol Spears wrote: it would be nice if everyone would stop making psd files since not everyone can use psd. In many cases people just want to convert their old work. They don't use proprietary formats by

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-08 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Selon Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michael Schumacher wrote: You could also argue that you're similarily locked in when using XCF... at least on systems where you can't install the GIMP. Is the XCF format proprietary? If not, then this is not a valid comparison. It's not proprietary,

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-08 Thread Michael Schumacher
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Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-08 Thread Alan Horkan
] Trouble with layers from psd On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 19:41 -0800, Carol Spears wrote: there are differences between the native photoshop files and the native gimp files. gimp can handle different sized layers and other things. I'm not too certain Photoshop doesn't. In fact, I believe

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 09:29:45PM -0500, Enesha Fairluck wrote: Good evening all, I am having some trouble, and I hope someone out there can help me:) I have a .psd template that I got from someone on the net. I tried opening it in the gimp 2.0 running on mandrake 10.1 and the file

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 11:58:49PM -0500, Enesha Fairluck wrote: Evening, and thanks for the reply:) Well that isn't the best of news I'll grant you:) Is there no way to convert the psd to something that gimp could import in that way? i am tempted to say definately not so that someone