Hi On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 08:07:57AM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 12:28:45PM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I'm looking for a file format for images that plays nicely with revision > > control. Ideally I'd like to edit them while seeing what I'm editing, > > whether it's a line drawing (like inkscape) or a pixel map. > > > > I think that doesn't exist. At least not for all kind of images. > SVG is basically an XML file. There you can at least compare the xml > content. But that however is also very tricky, you might need something > which converts it first into canonical xml and the compare/store it. > But that is only efficient for vector images. For bitmap images that > wouldn't work.
For bitmap images, you *could* resort to storing them in PBM format - which happens to be pure text and easy to parse[1]. The netpbm package contains tools for converting to/from a plethora of formats. And to do basic command-line manipulation of images. For viewing the image, the normal Gnome tools understand PBM - e.g. eog will happily show them, and nautilus will show you thumbnails. Not sure about other file managers... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm_format -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140209175855.GA30686@hawking
