>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. [...] >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. I don't think the user should have any say; TGA should always accept wrapped packets and never generate any (according to the old rule of network engineering: Be conservative in what you send, and liberal in what you accept). This will make compressed images at most O(number of lines) bigger, so it's not devastating.
