Comments on: The last bit of *magick dependency is now gone from Krita

By: Boudewijn Rempt

Boudewijn Rempt — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:04:47 +0000

Well, I think Cyrille and I are managing the transition quite well . We won’t release a 2.2 without support for psd, xcf or gif; and for 2.1 nothing has changed compared to 2.0.

By: Boudewijn Rempt

Boudewijn Rempt — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:03:49 +0000

Only if you had the exactly right version of GraphicsMagick, i.e., 1.1. And in a very limited way.

By: Krita and XCF « Cyrille Berger

Krita and XCF « Cyrille Berger — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:03:24 +0000

[...] 20 November, 2009 Cyrille Berger Leave a comment Go to comments Last week, I blogged about the removal of the graphics magick file format filter in Krita, and that it would mean that we need to write directly our own support for many file [...]

By: Kubuntiac

Kubuntiac — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:27:10 +0000

Basic layered xcf is back already. Calm down people.

By: Cyrille Berger

Cyrille Berger — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:27:10 +0000

Well actually it is KDE, but it is very limited, I would feel better to have a FAQ to explain how to convert such a file using external tool in something that Krita can read. After all the Gimp has a plugin for ORA file and can read XCF and PSD, I would have no shame in telling that you have to use the Gimp to convert the file Of course the long term solution would be to have good filters for those too.

By: moltonel

moltonel — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:19:30 +0000

I hope PSD and XCF won’t be missing for too long, they’re important. Otherwise, kudos for moving in what seems to be the right direction.

By: KDE user from Poland

KDE user from Poland — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:49:45 +0000

open source really needs project managers as i see. Of course thank you for all your hard work but this is quite big regression.

By: Kubuntiac

Kubuntiac — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:33:27 +0000

Actually, come to think of it did v2.0 / v2.1 even support PSD / XCF?

By: Kubuntiac

Kubuntiac — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:29:58 +0000

Didn’t Lukas just discover with the spray brush stuff, that QT can load PSD and XCF’s in natively? Even if its without layer separation, surely that’s got to be better than no PSD/XCF at all…

PS Congratulations on finishing your thesis!

By: Cyrille Berger

Cyrille Berger — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:19:04 +0000

Of course there is, and we use those libraries (libpng, libtiff, libjpeg, openexr, poppler and now OpenJpeg, and probably in the future ungif). The only formats for which we do not use a library are “simple” format like ppm or bmp.

What we do not use anymore is a kind of “abstraction layer” between those low-level libraries and krita, because it has proven difficult to maintain, and do not give use the kind of flexibility and power that we need.