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

[Donny Viszneki]

If the GIMP stored a pre-composited raster image in each file using a
common format, it would make it quite easy for other applications to
load the image, and would also accelerate the speed with which the
gimp could show previews from its open dialog, and potentially the
loading of the image for editing. Someone should give this suggestion
to the GIMP team. However I'd say in general distributing software
with multimedia in XCF format --- when all you need out of your images
are a flat raster image --- is a dumb idea.

I'd like to be able to save a file under two file names (and file
formats) from the GIMP. Basically if my files could auto-export that
would be great.

On 10/5/06, Pete Shinners <pete at shinners.org> wrote:
> 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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