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[Hubert Figuiere]

Will Stokes wrote:
> Hubert,
> 
> Just thought I'd let you know another developer is lurking on this
> list. I'm excited about what you're up to and look forward to ditching
> my fork of some dcraw code and use libopenraw exclusively for both
> getting thumbnails (what I do currently) as well as reading and
> writing to raw file formats (something I'm intrested in in the future.

writing to RAW files ain't gonna happen. Unless it is DNG, for the sole
purpose of offering conversion to DNG (even if I still consider it
unreliable enough as it does not resolve the undocumented RAW issue, but
just hide it)

> I'm also curious about something. I'm not sure how rational this is,
> but as many know ijg's libjpeg supports some nifty fast transforms and
> scaling operations. I doubt the latter is possible with raw file
> formats, but perhaps rotations and flipping could be made ultra fast
> as well?

The only transformation libopenraw will offer is processing the RAW data
(usually CFA) to a RGB pixmap.


Hub