On Tuesday, 4 Dec 2001, Seth Burgess wrote: > 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! Me too! I think being able to convert XCFs with ImageMagick would be a very useful tool. Just make it clear to users that the rendering they see may not be pixel-for-pixel the same as the gimp version (eg because of slightly different rounding of values combined in layers, etc). Austin
