Hi Leonard, I think if you make sure to check the version of the XCF, this will be exceptionally useful to users of ImageMagick. Its not at all an uncommon request on gimp-user or the gimp newsgroup. Batch conversion is still best handled via the commandline, and having the ability to use gimp's working format is a big bonus. It makes us bump the version number when we upgrade the image format, but we try to do that anyway. Now, I don't expect it to be easy to implement (involving significant chunks of the core, as Sven mentioned), but if you've got that covered please do add it! Happy GIMPing, Seth Burgess sjburges@xxxxxxxx --- Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 02:04 PM 12/4/2001 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > >The idea to use XCF in an AbiWord document makes me shudder. > > The AbiWord folks actually liked the idea! I don't know how many > people will actually use it - but it's nice to have and it continues to > improve the integration of "GNOME Office". > > > >For image web galleries, I'd suggest they use GIMP in batch mode > >to convert to another format or to create the thumbnails directly. > >That would probably have been a way to go for ImageMagick too. > > For whatever reason, most (all?) of the products in this space > have chosen to use IM (or something similiar) to do the conversions rather > than going to GIMP. If I were to guess, I would suspect it's because they > can interact with IM directly from Java, Perl and PHP instead of having to > build "batch files" and then run Gimp (higher overhead). > > > >I don't think XCF is intended to be a file format for image > >distribution. > > OK. If that is not the intent, it's not the intent! > > > >It is as much a bad choice for image distribution as > >Photoshop files are, or Word files for exchanging text documents. > > I would argue that for "non-simple" images, the Photoshop format > has a lot going for it! Sure, if all you want is a "flat bitmap", it's WAY > OVERKILL - but for layered CMYK images with clipping paths, it's the way to > go! In fact, I once had a client with the requirement of taking CMYK > images with 16million colors and either transparency or clipping into > PDF/PS documents. The only image format that met the requirements was > Photoshop/PSD. > > > >It's sole purpose is to save intermediate states of your work and > >probably exchange it among GIMP users. > > In that case, I definitely WONT implement saving as XCF! > > > Leonard > > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com
