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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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