At 02:20 AM 6/21/2006, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> * Any hierarchical arrangements should be described in XML and not
> using the "fake directories" of ZIP/Tar. However, common naming
> conventions for files/paths should be established.
Well, I wouldn't call them fake,
They are - in that the file structure is flat and the
hierarchy is "visual" by pathnames. It's not a true hierarchical
structure ala formats such as StuffIt.
Oyvind Kolas proposed to make it possible to also store jpegs as read-only
layers. I'm not sure how to make that work without, though.
The only thing that I could see JPEG being used for, which
isn't noted in your format description, is as a "preview" or
"thumbnail" image. It may also be worthwhile to have it as a "fully
composited" image - ala Photoshop - for applications that don't have
all the tools for composite on the fly but want to display the image.
Are you sure it's a good idea to make it impossible to store
non-float rgb/grayscale data in
the same way as cmyk/lab?
I guess I should have said that use of PNG for those is a
recommendation and not a requirement. I agree that in a file that
contains BOTH RGB and CMYK data, you'd probably want to use the same
storage method - but in an RGB-only, you might stick with PNG.
Oh, and by "raw bits" -- do you mean no structuring of the pixel
layer data in tiles?
I do. I am not a big fan of tiled image data. But that's
more personal than technical.
Probably, but don't we want OpenDocument compatibility here?
But this is part of an embedded raster image inside of an
ODF document - not the other way around. If you try to make this
format also provide for compound documents - ala PDF or XPS - you
will dilute it's true purpose.
LDR
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