[kde-doc-english]kdegraphics/kpaint

[Pam R]

On Thursday 04 April 2002 12:01 am, Brad Hards wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 19:17, Éric Bischoff wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > "To save your image use the
> > <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Save</guimenuitem>
> > </menuchoice> or <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Save
> > As...</guimenuitem></menuchoice> options, giving the file name a .bmp,
> > .gif, .jpg, .xpm, .xbm or .pnm extension to define the format in which
> > you want it to be saved."
> >
> > Is it still the right list of supported file extensions? What about png
> > format? Is pnm a typo of png?
>
> I don't think that the list can be correct, since we don't create GIF
> files....
> From looking at kdelibs/kimgio, it looks like it should be possible to
> create the following:
> Windows Bitmap (.bmp, .BMP extensions)
> Encapsulated PostScript (.eps, .EPS extensions)
> Microsoft Icons (.ico, .ICO extensions)
> JPEG images (.jpg, .JPG, .jpeg, .JPEG extensions)
> KRL images (no extensions, don't know about this format)
> PNG pictures (.png, .PNG extensions)
> PNM ("portable anymap") pictures ( pnm, PNM, pbm, PBM, pgm, PGM, ppm, PPM,
> pbmraw, PBMRAW, pgmraw, PGMRAW, ppmraw, PPMRAW extensions)
> TIFF images (.tiff, .TIFF, .tif, .TIF extensions)
> XWindow bitmaps (.xbm, .XBM extensions)
> XWindow pixmaps (.xpm, .XPM extensions)
> XView format (no extensions, don't know about this format)
>
> I haven't actually tested this, so it is probably worth a trial.
>
> And, as shown above, pnm is a different format (format group, really) to
> png.
>
I'll try to check this list at the weekend then update the .docbook, also 
adding the markup that Eric pointed out was missing.

Pam