krita 2.4-b4 Linux vs Krita 2.4-b5 Windows 7: displaying PSD images

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Mon, 26 Dec 2011, silvio grosso wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> These days, I am enjoying all the goodies Krita 2.4 beta 5 can already offers on Windows 7.
> I use less and less Linux (Ubuntu 11.10) which likely is not so "good" in the long term for me... :-)
> 
> One question though which arises is what is the difference betweeen:
> Krita 2.4 beta 4 on Linux and Krita 2.5 beta 5 on Windows?
> 
> By reading *beta 5* for Windows I would suppose the Krita's version for Windows is one "step" above the one for linux
> (which is "only" beta 4).

Basically, krita on windows is a snapshot of the code that will become 
beta5, so it has some bugfixes which the linux beta doesn't have yet. On 
the other hand, the windows version is missing quite a few parts

* opengtl is missing, so no floating point colorspaces
* kdcraw isn't detected, so no support for raw images
* fftw3 isn't detected, so no fast convolution
* lcms2 isn't available yet, so lots of crashes when applying filters.

> However, for instance, when I try to open a bunch of PSD images of mine *none* of them are displayed correctly on
> Windows 7.

Yes, I just verified that bug -- it's pretty weird, but I can confirm. It 
must be some rather silly linux-only constructions that I and Siddharth 
use.

> On the contrary, all my Psd images (except one) are shown fine on Ubuntu 11.10 with Krita 2.4 beta 4.
> 
> I have already opened a new bug report about this issue with two of my PSD samples :-)
> It is here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289857
> 
> P.s: all in all, it looks, from my first tests on Windows 7 - 64 bit, that most bugs and crashes are reproducible both
> on Windows and Ubuntu 11.10 - Unity Shell.

Which is kind of good :-). It's amazing that people actually can use the 
windows version already to paint with...

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Silvio Grosso
> 
>