> An interesting thing: Open Source and GPL dictate that the format used
> for a source file is the recommended format for editing. In the case
> of an image, I would think that would mean .png or some other common
> lossless image format (lossless, because you don't want to subject
> your edit store to multiple lossy compression cycles.) A program
> should be included to convert to the internally used format.
The format is actually a public format. There is a gimp-plugin for it (see
www.gimp.org; the plugins-section). Beeing a somewhat "native" gimp file,
what more does one want ? I agree that it is a requirement for open source
that at least one common paint-program can read/convert the current image.
Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven
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