Hi, "Branko Collin" <collin@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Today I saw another reason for XCF to be taken more seriously as an > interchange format by the GIMP developers (or at least to document > the format and its effects better). > > In rec.photo.digital somebody wrote in the thread 'IMatch cataloger / > workflow questions' about XCF support for a program called Imatch. > The poster would like to see this support, because he keeps edits of > his digital photos as .xcf files, IMO an altogether sensible use of > the format. And of course, a catalogue program should be able to deal > with XCF files then. > > I am not trying to advocate XCF as a format for the exchange of > images, but I do think that if for instance the authors of > ImageMagick want to support it, they may have a good reason for that. my whole point was that we should try to come up with a reasonable interchange format for multi-layered images instead of using XCF which isn't really well-suited for this task. Introducing XCF support into various other apps will make that even more difficult. Perhaps I'm thinking too idealistic here... Salut, Sven
