Ah... the paintCompression might be sufficient to use as an extension. It's not 
perfect but it will probably do.

Basically if someone imported a JPG I didn't think it would be suitable for the 
VCS to export/import as png. If you say it would be ok then I'll run with that.

What I'm doing is each object will be represented by a folder and while most 
properties will be exported as JSON I thought there are some properties that 
would be better as separate files. The script is the prime example but an image 
is another one. Also I'm considering the htmlText of a field may be worthwhile 
as a separate property although that could get quite complicated for unshared 
text in shared groups so might be best avoided.


On 23/02/2013, at 8:22 AM, Scott Rossi <[email protected]> wrote:

> You can probably use the paintCompression property to check the image
> type.  It might also help to know that PNG is essentially lossless -- you
> shouldn't lose any image data using this format.  You may find that
> dealing with the gamma of PNG images is something of a black art and can
> cause subtle changes in how an image is displayed.  But this is true for
> the many apps that save/display PNGs, as well as LC, so it may not be an
> issue.

--
Monte Goulding

M E R Goulding - software development services
mergExt - There's an external for that!





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