[CREATE] OpenRaster minimal implementation

[Jon Phillips]

I think good to set some timeline on this and announce it...we are
overdue for some press, and good to spread the word to get adobe, etc,
aware of our coolness to stem other file formats...

Great to get more adoption as well!

Jon

On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 18:27 +0100, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Friday 02 January 2009, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> > 2009/1/2 Martin Renold wrote:
> > > My conclusion is that the the very minimal OpenRaster that MyPaint saves
> > > now
> >
> > Are we talking about newly released 3.29 or something else?
> >
> > I'd be pretty interesting in measuring opening/saving time for large
> > files. I've heard a lot of critics at an early stage of OpenRaster
> > development about how much time it will take so save an archive of XML
> > and bitmaps, especially when we are talking about 10-12 layers with
> > masks.
> 
> basically it's the same technique we've been using for Krita -- it's really 
> not inefficient, since you first load and parse a small xml file (and even 
> with hundreds of layers and masks, it'll still be really small xml file 
> compared to the average tomcat web app configuration file), and then you just 
> load the binary pixel data for each layer. In openraster, that's in png 
> format, in krita it's uncompressed bytes -- but given that both are in a zip 
> file, that's not a big difference.
> 
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