Hi, > > Wouldn't it be good for Gimp, if there would be an external viewer > > to watch the files? > > Yes and no. He told me that he wouldn't be making the viewer able to > parse xcf files completely, anyway, as that would be too complex. Only > the bottom layer would probably be shown. (This is how IrfanView works > for psd (Photoshop) files, too, I think.) I think, that's a misunderstanding. It seemd very strange to me, that such a complex viewer shows only the bottom layer of an image file, so I tried IrfanView with layerd Photoshop-files: it shows the layers flattened on a white background, that means, the transparency of the bottom-layer doesn't work with pds-files, but beside this, everything is visible, not just the bottom-layer. The layers aren't available in the viewer, but that's not, what a viewer is asked for. > And as the only reasonable > reason to use xcf format in the first place is when you are working on > some multi-layer or otherwise complex image in the GIMP and want to > save it between editing sessions, wouldn't it be counter-productive if > IrfanView would show only the bottom layer? Yes, but like I said before: I think that's a misunderstanding. Somehow it would be a little bit ridiculous to show only the bottom layer. > Xcf is not intended to be an image distribution format, or an image > interchange format between applications. I don's see why anybody would > distribute xcf images except if they are 100% sure that the > recipient(s) are going to work on them with the (same version of) > GIMP. If I'm working on a grafical project, after a while I have often 20 or 30 quite similar xcf-files - every one an other version of the same thing. If I now try to find any detail that I did before, I have to open all the files with gimp. Thumbnails don't help here. A quick viewer would be very nice. Hago
