Hi, "William Skaggs" <weskaggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I agree that for a C plug-in a library is easier to use but we will >> also have to care about plug-ins written in other languages. Making >> the functionality available in the PDB solves this nicely. What we >> usually do is to provide wrappers that let the procedure call appear >> as a simple function call. > > This is only relevant to file plug-ins. It didn't occur to me that > they would ever be written in anything except C, but if that is a > reasonable possibility, then I accept the argument. It's just an argument, not a requirement. Simply something that might be worth keeping in mind. Is this really only relevant to file plug-ins? A metadata editor would need to use these functions as well, wouldn't it? > The orientation is *always* supposed to be set to "top-left" when an > image is saved, on the principle that after the user has edited > the image in GIMP, the orientation is the way the user wants it. > Only a camera should ever set it to anything other than "top-left". Hmm, so if I open an image, do some color corrections, but do not rotate it, the orientation tag is supposed to change? I can hardly believe that. But if you say that's what the spec says... Sven
