Irfan Skiljan writes: > My name is Irfan, I am the maker of IrfanView, maybe you know it ;-) Yup, I have read recommendations for it, sorry to say I haven't tried it myself yet. > I got now several emails from users with the wish to add XCF reading > support in my viewer. I don't know if that is a good idea. XCF is really the GIMP's own private format for saving images between editing sessions, it is not intended for interoperability with other applications. Or what do you folks on gimp-developer think? > My question: do you know for some documentation/sources about XCF format? > I know your Win-Gimp port, I have the sources, but there are too many > sources and too many cross-includes ;-) The only documentation for XCF is the source code in xcf.c. There is a docs/xcf.doc file, but I don't know how up-to-date that is. > I need a simple (independent) ReadXCF routine, I must create a > DIB-Bitmap ... It won't be very simple, as XCF is a quite complex format (it is more or less a serialisation of the GIMP's runtime image structure), with multiple layers, channels, tiles, selections, paths, guideline positions, "tattoos" and "parasites", and whatnot. (Does IrfanView read PSD files, and implement all the layer stuff?) --tml
