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Subject: [Bug 108769] Multiple Network Graphics (MNG) support
From: Alan Horkan <horkana () maths ! tcd ! ie>
Date: 2005-07-10 16:56:13
Message-ID: 20050710165613.18309.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From horkana maths tcd ie 2005-07-10 18:56 -------
> The problem is that MNG is a "video" format,
That is the worst possible way to think about it in this situation and exactly what I \
was hoping you would not do :) In Krita you would import each frame as a seperate \
layer. In the short term other applications would simply show the first frame \
treating it much like a PNG (other possibilities might be to show the last frame or a \
flattened version of all the frames) but in the long term it would be treated much \
the same as how most programs would treat animated GIFs
MNG is an important standard to promote and if we dont promote open standards we will \
be stuck playing catch up against nasty proprietary standards. It gives us the best \
hope we have of interchanging documents between the GIMP and Krita and other image \
editors without throwing away the layers or being forced to use a proprietary \
standard like PSD. (That MNG/JNG is built from PNG and JPG has the advantage of \
helping to avoid a whole lot of unnecessary reencoding.)
It is far from an ideal solution but the libraries are already there and even being \
able to import/export/ roundtrip a fairly simple MNG will be a good start and once \
the functionality is out there I'm sure more uses will be found for it. Users dont \
have too many expectations of what MNG should do so it doesnt have to be perfect, it \
just has to be a start. ____________________________________
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