Hi. I'm writing a GdkPixbuf loader for Adobe Photoshop image format (PSD). In fact it is already working. Sources (and .deb for Ubuntu) are available at [1]. I'd like to ask two questions. First, is it possible to write incremental loader that does *not* read the entire input file? This is something that would speed up my loader a lot. PSD files contain a preview near the begining of the file followed by a lot of other stuff, like layers, masks and so on. The loader reads only the preview and the rest is not needed, but often the rest takes a lot of space. One possible way to stop reading is to return FALSE from load_increment function, but this is considered as error indication. Is there any way to work around this behaviour? And the second question: is there any possiblity that such loader could become part of GTK+, like loaders for other image formats are? If not, I can try to keep it as a separate package, but this is very small library (~600 lines of code) and it seems to me like a lot of effort - building packages for many distributions or handling localizations (there are a few strings that could be translated). Besides, it looks like PSD is rather popular file format (although I don't have any stats). At least a few people were waiting for PSD support for a long time [2]. Of course any comments and suggestions are welcome. Maybe someone more experienced in C/GTK+ than me could take a look at the code :-) [1] http://code.google.com/p/gdk-pixbuf-psd/ [2] http://www.actsofvolition.com/archive/2006/september/bountyfor Thanks, Jan Dudek _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
