On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:38:35 -0000, staigermanus wrote:
> So I'm curious, does everyone here use XCF as the one and only format
> for WIP before saving to other formats if final integration is due in
> other toolls or save to jpeg for web, email, etc?
In GIMP, XCF is the only format that can store everything related to the
image you're working on. Of course, as it's GIMP's native format, it's not
useful for interchange with other software (although I've noticed that
Corel's PhotoPaint supports loading of XCF images, though I don't know how
much of it's properties it supports). .xcf is to GIMP what .psd is to
Photoshop and eg. .pspimage is to Paint Shop Pro.
> Would be nice to get some insights from developers - is XCF (one of)
> the format(s) of the future? A common layered metafore? should we look
> seriously into support xcf natively and wth layers in DOgwaffle?
AFAIK, there are plans to replace XCF with a different format, similar in
design to ODF (ZIP file which includes XML with metadata and layers stored
as separate images).
> Does XCF also support image sequences, for example could an animation
> sequnce from DOgwaffle be saved for import as layered image stack in
> the GIMP, if that makes sense?
XCF supports layers, and eg. animated GIF images are imported as layered
images to GIMP.
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