[CREATE] OpenDocument. Was: [Gimp-developer] Photoshop PSD 6 format
Spec / Gimp XCF format Spec
Boudewijn Rempt
boud at valdyas.org
Thu Mar 2 11:45:30 PST 2006
Okay, so it turned out that I was still subscribed under an old email address,
but my mailers sends everyone with the current one. Anyway, my fault, and I
would like to thank Manish for helping me out of my bewilderment. What I
wanted to propose & work on after my 1.5 release is the following:
Cooperating on get an OpenDocument specification for layered raster images
done and into the OASIS OpenDocument standard. Krita would use that format
for its native format, of course, as all of KOffice is moving to
OpenDocument.
OpenDocument automatically means some choices are made for us: a zip file
store, a certain layout inside that store, and xml main document and
resources for the binary data. Those choices may not be the best possible
technical choices, but Krita already uses a similar mechanism and it seems to
work.
And since the Gimp and Krita have a different set of capabilities, we'd have
to make a flexible and complete specification, one that includes all possible
(possibly uninvented as yet) color models, adjustment layers, paths (which
Krita doesn't have) and so on.
I would really like to cooperate on this, since a standard used by one
application isn't a standard at all and since it would mean much better
interchange of documents than would be possible through either Photoshop
(ancient version 6 or reverse-engineered later versions) or XCF.
I'm prepared to do most of the writing & nagging of David Faure about
procedures and guidelines, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to do it all on
my own.
--
Boudewijn Rempt
http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi
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