[CREATE] OpenRaster fallbacks (proposal/RFC)

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Martin Renold wrote:

> This is a proposal to add generic fallbacks to OpenRaster.
>
> My motivation for pushing this is that I want to save the tiled
> background in MyPaint properly and compatible with Krita, and I want
> the new images to look correct in today's version of Krita, MyPaint
> and DrawPile.
>
> Summary:
>
> A <try> element can be put around something that provides a fallback.
> If the required features are implemented, then the element that
> follows the <try> is removed and the content of the <replacement> is
> inserted in its place. Otherwise the try itself is dropped.
>
> ...
> <stack>
>  ...
>  <try>
>    <require>
>      <feature name="text layers" />
>    </require>
>    <replacement>
>      <text>
>        some text
>      </text>
>    </replacement>
>  </try>
>  <layer name="rendered text" src="data/text_fallback.png" />

Just to make sure... Should some particular hinting be forced for
fallback bitmaps of text or the app should store what the user sees
when saving?

Alexandre