At 8:52 PM -0500 1/13/04, Patrick Julien wrote: > > Depending on the functional needs for a file format, there >> are a number of good options - PSD, TIFF and PNG being at the top of >> the list... > >I'm suprised you didn't push MIFF :) In it's own way, MIFF is also problematic as it's directly tied to ImageMagick/GraphicMagick's internal format (much as XCF is tied to GIMP's internal structures). > > XML for binary/image data is a generally bad idea... > >No, Koffice file formats are XML based, but data is kept in seperate >segments. >The files are actually virtual filesystems, the data parts are stored >seperate from the XML proper. Then everything is stored in a zip archive. > Oh, you are talking about a JAR-like storage system - OK, that's a good thing. I tried to convince the GIMP folks to try that direction - but Sven didn't see the merit :(. LDR -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leonard Rosenthol _______________________________________________ kimageshop mailing list kimageshop@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kimageshop