[I'm not sure where to post this, but I hope this is okay.] I noticed that many programs have trouble reading RLE compressed TGAs produced by the Gimp. The problem is that the TGA saver produces packets that wrap over line boundaries. Quoting from the TGA specs I found somewhere at ftp://ftp.truevision.com: "Run-length Packets should never encode pixels from more than one scan line. Even if the end of one scan line and the beginning of the next contain pixels of the same value, the two should be encoded as separate packets. In other words, Run-length Packets should not wrap from one line to another." However this is for new format TGA files, whereas the Gimp saves in the original format, which does allow for wrapping (i.e. it doesn't explicitly say it's not allowed). I thought it was best to let the user decide what to do. The patch, made against `plug-ins/common/tga.c' in 1.1.24, is attached. Please Cc: any replies to me as I am not subscribed to this list. -- tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx - http://www.psynet.net/tjaden/ A witty remark proves nothing.
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