On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Guillermo S. Romero / unnamed / Familia Romero wrote: >Can you teach some "professionals" that are unable to learn about file >formats, please? I am feed up of speaking with guys that only manage TIFF or >a few more file formats. You say PNG, and they say "what is that?". The >worse is not speaking, the worse is that I must send images to them for >printing. On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > This is very true. TIFF _is_ used very much in print world. That is why I > added the "Mac" vs "PC" switch to the TIFF plugin in cvs gimp a while ago, > so that I remember what use the switch has.. We just cant ignore it now. > Same as with GIF's on websites. I'd love to change to something better, > but 1) jpeg's suck for anything not photographs and 2) png is not > supported enough on browsers (a LOT of people still use IE3) and it doesnt > do animation. Can I just check here, since I know Tuomas is more of a power user than a developer as such, did you add this switch because using "Mac" rather than "PC" (or even vice versa) actually fixed problems for you in some cases, or just because from the description it seemed like a more useful label? I recall being around during the discussion which ended with you adding the "Mac" vs "PC" comments, but at the time I didn't understand what those switches controlled. Now that I do, and I've read more TIFF docs I don't see how it can be helping, but if it _is_ helping I'll leave it. Nick.
