PSD.rb

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thursday 01 August 2013 Aug 19:10:13 silvio grosso wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> > On Wednesday 31 July 2013 Jul 13:15:03 Simon Legrand wrote:
> > Not sure if you already have all heard of it, but this seems interesting.
> > http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/56891876898/psd-rb
> 
> I have just downloaded the latest Krita installer for Windows [0] in order to test it with a set of PSD images (these 5 psd images are also available as jpg-png images to act as sample):
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3095134/BUGS_REPORT/PSD_KRITA_PROBLEMS/PSD_KRITA_PROBLEMS.zip
> 
> On Windows 7 (64 bit),  none of these 5 images works fine with Krita 2.7.8.10_64.
> In essence, they are somewhat opened. However, their colours-layers are not correct.

Sounds like a 32 vs 64 bit problem... I thought Camilla had caught those issues, but I guess she only tested on Linux :-(.

> On the contrary, with Picasa 3.9 (build 136.20.0) - Windows 7, all of them (*except*  Usb_key image) are visualized fine.
> For instance, it looks like Picasa is able to detect (and display) the right order of the layers of these psd images.
> Probably it is a quite long shot, but, perhaps, there is some useful code available which one might borrow from Picasa 3.9 as well...
> In the past you might run Picasa easily on Linux as well (through Wine).

Picase isn't open source, is it?

> 
> P.s: IMHO, another interesting project to look at is Gimp. 
> This year there is a Gsoc aimed at improving the support for the Psd format [1].
> Needless to say, I have tried these 5 Psd test-images with Gimp 2.8.6 but all of them do not work right now :-)
> 

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Boudewijn Rempt
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