Explaining in the intro that the reference is the code, and where to
find it.
Rather than writing uint32/64 for every offset, use "pointer" as a
proper and well defined basic data type, whose detailed description is
in the "BASIC CONCEPTS" section at the start of the file.
... for layer modes.
KDE developers asked me where the code was so that they could reproduce
actual algorithms in their XCF reader. This is obviously interesting
information to have around in our docs.
XCF spec:
- Update to GIMP 2.8.10
- Clarify role of file formats in the save-vs.-export-context
- Rearrange outline
- Collect infos on basic concepts in one chapter
- Add table of contents
- Add File format version history
- Add note on image size
- Add open questions and TODOs
- Sort properties alphabetically
- Unify tiles and hierarchy examples
- Wording
- Cosmetic cleanups
Extract compositing.txt from xcf.txt
Update parasites.txt:
- Replace SVN->Git
- Update contact e-mail address
- Add table of contents
Cherry-picked from commit a83791be19
2000-06-13 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org>
Moved various files from the docs directory to
devel-docs and devel-docs/pdb. Excluded papers
from being distributed but left them in CVS.
Jehan