On Aug 19, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Frank Schoep wrote: > I see. > > Before I write up a definitive policy on this, I took a look at the > file formats supported by Photoshop[1] to see if there are any > other layered formats available. There seems to be one, advanced > TIFF. Could you try saving a more complex and layered Photoshop > drawing to layered TIFF and sending it to me so I can fiddle with > it in The Gimp? > > I haven't got Photoshop myself so I'm not sure which options you > can set for saving TIFFs, but if possible, apply deflate or bzip2 > compression to keep the file size down. I hope we can resolve the > issue partially by exporting layered TIFFs from Photoshop which can > be opened using Breezy / Dapper / Edgy Gimp. > > Thanks for bringing up the issue, I hope we can work together > towards a solution. > > Sincerely, > > Frank > > > [1] - Found some info on http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/ > article.asp?p=169496&seqNum=3&rl=1
You can find the file here: http://thingmajig.org/tmp/test.tif However, it does not open the file correctly. It only shows the flattened version. It also complains about the file having information it cannot parse. I don't think TIFF is going to be very useful. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
