31 Aug
2011
31 Aug
'11
4:51 p.m.
On 31/08/11 10:18 AM, Adrian Stoness wrote:
don't forget raw files
Do you mean Camera RAW? Yes that is a mysterious format, and has proven
difficult to reverse engineer, I believe.
--T
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Toby Thain <toby
at telegraphics.com.au>wrote:
On 30/08/11 9:56 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
As I also said: It's not documented sufficiently to reconstruct any non
trivial image. Only Photoshop can rasterise a PSD (and even then, it
must be undamaged, and you have to find a sufficiently new version of
Photoshop, etc). Calling what Adobe provides "documentation" isn't fair
to real documentors. :)
--Toby
On 08/30/2011 09:10 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
^^
>> Image processing and archiving (not to
mention file preservation in
>> general) goes far, far beyond this handful of web-oriented formats. In
>> fact JFIF, PNG and GIF cannot even _represent_ many of the images that
>> millions of people use every day.
>
> "Web-oriented formats"? Every one of them predates "the web"
by
> years.
What's that got to do with it?
About as much as you're sticking the subsentence "web-oriented" in the
sentence above.
> The web and digital photography helped these three become ubiquitous. But as
soon as you get into professional image processing you often need
something more sophisticated.
Riiiiight. Like PSD for example, which is documented. Perhaps not
WELL, but it's documented. (as you know intimately from your work on
that parser)