Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, "Michael Schumacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > IIRC, one of the prerequisites for this is an API for text layers. > Currently, all you can do is to add text in a new layer or a new floating > selection. Right. The PSD plug-in would have to be able to create a text layer based on the info

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-10 Thread Jeffrey McBeth
Quoting Jakub Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 03:08 +0100, Simon Budig wrote: Eric Pierce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [MM Fireworks] He told me that the default file format is png! I called him a bold faced lier, but he swears up and down that png is the default format. I asked h

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-10 Thread Jakub Steiner
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 03:08 +0100, Simon Budig wrote: >Eric Pierce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >[MM Fireworks] >> He told me that the default file format is png! I called him a bold >> faced lier, but he swears up and down that png is the default format. >> I asked him about layers, and he said the

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-10 Thread Duncan Lithgow
> I am pretty sure, that Macromedia licensed the current PSD specification > from Adobe. They can afford to sign a NDA and it is probably relatively > cheap compared to the efforts to reverse engineer it. > > Bye, > Simon Just thought I'd mention that Autodesk bought Macromedia - and Autod

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-10 Thread David Neary
Hi Greg, Gregbair wrote: > And, no they don't publish the extensions. Anyway, Fireworks can import PSD > files with the text layers. I'm 101% positive Adobe didn't tell Macromedia > how to do this, so if Fireworks can, maybe some smart GIMP person can. It's not quite that straightforward. Presu

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-10 Thread Simon Budig
Gregbair ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Anyway, Fireworks can import PSD files with the text layers. I'm 101% > positive Adobe didn't tell Macromedia how to do this, so if Fireworks > can, maybe some smart GIMP person can. I am pretty sure, that Macromedia licensed the current PSD specification fro

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-10 Thread Michael Schumacher
Carol Spears wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:27:40AM +, Eric Pierce wrote: > > Implementing the import/export of a dynamic text layer from psd would > > be a nice addition though. > someone just needs to do this, and i think that someone said that they > could do this -- someone needs t

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-10 Thread Manish Singh
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:27:40AM +, Eric Pierce wrote: > One of the admins at my work purportedly uses Macormedia's Fireworks for > raster image editing. > > He told me that the default file format is png! I called him a bold > faced lier, but he swears up and down that png is the default f

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-10 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:27:40AM +, Eric Pierce wrote: > > > Implementing the import/export of a dynamic text layer from psd would be a > nice addition though. > someone just needs to do this, and i think that someone said that they could do this -- someone needs to just take the time to

RE: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-09 Thread Gregbair
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Simon Budig > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:09 PM > To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd > PNG can h

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-09 Thread Simon Budig
Eric Pierce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [MM Fireworks] > He told me that the default file format is png! I called him a bold > faced lier, but he swears up and down that png is the default format. > I asked him about layers, and he said the pngs that Fireworks saves > can DO LAYERS. I haven't seen

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-09 Thread Eric Pierce
One of the admins at my work purportedly uses Macormedia's Fireworks for raster image editing. He told me that the default file format is png! I called him a bold faced lier, but he swears up and down that png is the default format. I asked him about layers, and he said the pngs that Firework

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-09 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
Hi. So. TIFF format can have layers, and that is documented (although just using the 'normal' blending mode). Can Photoshop work with layered TIFF's? I think the support for layers in TIFFs is a lot easier to achieve than trying to figure out the PSD file, since the TIFF standard is document

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-09 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:15:36PM +0100, Jakub Steiner wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 20:03 -0800, Carol Spears wrote: > > > while i have no idea what the developers are doing, either as a group or > > individually (it is always just a guess about everything and anything, > > not just gimp stuff)

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-09 Thread Alan Horkan
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Carol Spears wrote: > Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:03:30 -0800 > From: Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jakub Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > GIMPUser > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd > > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 a

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-09 Thread Jakub Steiner
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 20:03 -0800, Carol Spears wrote: > while i have no idea what the developers are doing, either as a group or > individually (it is always just a guess about everything and anything, > not just gimp stuff), i always thought that they kept the ability to > read psd to a minimum

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-08 Thread Carol Spears
oops, On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:03:30PM -0800, Carol Spears wrote: > > by a group that was supposed to be all for freedom (it was anti-music or > anti-copyright, iirc). shame on these people for this. it is like that > anti-music industry is what i meant. music industry is an oxymoron also.

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-08 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:40:13AM +0100, Jakub Steiner wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 11:13 -0800, Carol Spears wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 01:26:49PM +0100, Jakub Steiner wrote: > > > > > > In many cases people just want to convert their old work. They don't use > > > proprietary formats

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-08 Thread Jakub Steiner
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 11:13 -0800, Carol Spears wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 01:26:49PM +0100, Jakub Steiner wrote: > > > > In many cases people just want to convert their old work. They don't use > > proprietary formats by ignorance, but simply because of a lack of option > > and lock-in of t

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-08 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 01:26:49PM +0100, Jakub Steiner wrote: > > In many cases people just want to convert their old work. They don't use > proprietary formats by ignorance, but simply because of a lack of option > and lock-in of their software. > you mean like "they cannot afford it" or "it do

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-08 Thread Alan Horkan
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Jakub Steiner wrote: > Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 13:26:49 +0100 > From: Jakub Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: GIMPUser , > Enesha Fairluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-08 Thread Michael Schumacher
Dave Neary wrote: [...] > ImageMagick can read XCFs). More or less, I heard. Often less. Michael -- Lassen Sie Ihren Gedanken freien Lauf... z.B. per FreeSMS GMX bietet bis zu 100 FreeSMS/Monat: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/mail ___ Gimp-user mailing li

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-08 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Selon Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Michael Schumacher wrote: > > You could also argue that you're similarily locked in when using XCF... at > > least on systems where you can't install the GIMP. > > Is the XCF format proprietary? If not, then this is not a valid comparison. It's not prop

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-08 Thread Geoffrey
Michael Schumacher wrote: Jakub Steiner wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 19:41 -0800, Carol Spears wrote: it would be nice if everyone would stop making psd files since not everyone can use psd. In many cases people just want to convert their old work. They don't use proprietary formats by ignorance,

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-08 Thread Michael Schumacher
Jakub Steiner wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 19:41 -0800, Carol Spears wrote: > > it would be nice if everyone would stop making psd files since not > > everyone can use psd. > > In many cases people just want to convert their old work. They don't use > proprietary formats by ignorance, but simp

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-08 Thread Jakub Steiner
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 19:41 -0800, Carol Spears wrote: > there are differences between the native photoshop files and the native > gimp files. gimp can handle different sized layers and other things. I'm not too certain Photoshop doesn't. In fact, I believe Photoshop simply doesn't expose the fa

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 11:58:49PM -0500, Enesha Fairluck wrote: > Evening, and thanks for the reply:) > > Well that isn't the best of news I'll grant you:) Is there no way to > convert the psd to something that gimp could import in that way? > i am tempted to say definately not so that someone

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 09:29:45PM -0500, Enesha Fairluck wrote: > Good evening all, > >I am having some trouble, and I hope someone out there can help > me:) I have a .psd template that I got from someone on the net. I > tried opening it in the gimp 2.0 running on mandrake 10.1 and the fi