[SDL] SDL_Image & .xcf files, does it work?

Pete Shinners pete at shinners.org
Thu Oct 5 12:20:18 PDT 2006


Bill Kendrick <nbs <at> sonic.net> writes:
> XCF
>     GIMP native (.xcf) (XCF = eXperimental Computing Facility?)
> 
>     This format is always changing, and since there's no library
>     supplied by the GIMP project to load XCF, the loader may frequently
>     fail to load much of any image from an XCF file. It's better to load
>     this in GIMP and convert to a better supported image format.


I've seen that there is effort being made for a specification for the file
format. This still leaves a gap between an easily sharable implementation, but
it is a start.

http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gimp/devel-docs/xcf.txt






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