Him "Robin Rowe" <rower@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The situation is worse than you think. Not only has the brush format > been modified, the XCF format has been broken, too. Again, for > higher bit depths than GIMP supports. Our users are surprised that > they can't read 8-bit GIMP XCF files even though XCF is listed as > our native format. I was afraid you would say that. Well, as with the brush file format, there is not much we can do now. I still cannot believe that anyone would be so mindless to do such a change, but it happened. The intention of my mail was to ensure that such things don't happen again in the future. > By the way, where would I find your docs for the GIMP gbr format? app/core/gimpbrush.[ch] > The plan is for CinePaint to move away from this undocumented and > incompatible XCF format we inherited -- and can't properly support > -- to a new XML-ish file format that will be called CPX. I am still > designing that, but have already documented the basic format. It > should replace gbr too. You might then be interested to hear that we started to discuss a new file format for GIMP more than 3 years ago and came up with an XML based design as well. More details will probably be made up at the GIMP developers conference next month. Sven
