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Re: Some KOffice2 questions
by Boudewijn Rempt on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @00:15
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The big problem with .psd and .ai is that Adobe since version 6.0 of Photoshop has closed their SDK. The SDK contains complete specs for their file formats. I have mailed with someone at Adobe who really did his best to get me the most recent Photoshop and Illustrator SDKs -- but ran afoul of Adobe's legal department.
Their have been some attempts to either reverse engineer the .psd file format or to write a GPL'ed library based on a leaked SDK, though, but not within the KOffice project. |
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Re: Some KOffice2 questions
by Michael on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @00:49
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Missing .PSD support in open source apps is quite unfortunate, because I often get layouts from external sources where I can't decide which format I'd like to receive. So I can't use Krita or GIMP for editing PSD files because PSD support is quite bad when opening current - say CS2 - files. But I understand why a closed-source binary format is very difficult to support.
What I don't understand why I still (April 2008) cannot open simple GIF files in Krita (using Kubuntu here). I've sometimes read that it's a Ubuntu problem but I wouldnt want to change the distro of my PC because of such a simple issue. Another idea I found was to recompile Krita. When there is an update I have to recompile again. This cannot be a solution to simply open a GIF file like the one you find at the top of this page. GIMP can do this as well. I know that PNG is a much better format, but sometimes I have the feeling that there is no understanding at all that you can't always choose which files you want to open.
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Re: Some KOffice2 questions
by Boudewijn Rempt on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @01:46
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We really cannot fix the kubuntu problems for you, I'm afraid. Since I'm not using Kubuntu myself I cannot even check what the problem is, though I suspect a lack of GraphicsMagick. I could replace the GraphicsMagick-based gif filter with filter based on Qt's gif support -- but there again, there's no guarantee that Qt will be compiled with gif support on all distributions. Writing a gif filter ourselves is a third option, but frankly, I've got enough to do already, so we'd need a volunteer for that.
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Re: Some KOffice2 questions
by Martin Fitzpatrick on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @10:30
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"I suspect a lack of GraphicsMagick."
Correct :) Thanks for the tip.
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Re: Some KOffice2 questions
by Thomas Zander on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @10:32
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I'll just repeat the normal; "don't report bugs on the dot, it will get lost and you will end up frustrated" line.
This is really a known bug and has little to do with KDE. Its Kubuntus issue.
see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/koffice/+bug/71711
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Re: Some KOffice2 questions
by Gilles Caulier on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @01:22
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Boudewijn,
About Exiv2, PSD support (Read only) is implemented in trunk. You can now extract EXIF/IPTC/XMP metadata as well.
This is a first stage to support PSD in Krita.
I have planed to implement a PSD image loader into digiKam core to be able to support 16 bits color depth PSD image in editor. Of course, this will not include layer support. We will talking about at LGM2008...
Gilles Caulier
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