From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 26 21:42:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3118516A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:42:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd3mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E840143D2F for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:42:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flowers@nekulturny.org) Received: from pd3mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr3so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.179]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I6700H4VOA48CD0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:42:04 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml2so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.146]) by pd3mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I6700JRDOA4DEK0@pd3mr3so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:42:04 -0600 (MDT) Received: from procyon.nekulturny.org (S0106000c41b2b9a3.cg.shawcable.net [68.144.45.143]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0I6700G0LOA4JY@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:42:04 -0600 (MDT) Received: from procyon.nekulturny.org (localhost.nekulturny.org [127.0.0.1]) i9QLg3UU001722; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:42:03 -0600 (MDT envelope-from flowers@nekulturny.org) Received: (from flowers@localhost) by procyon.nekulturny.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i9QLg2fK001721; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:42:02 -0600 (MDT envelope-from flowers) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:42:01 -0600 From: Danny MacMillan In-reply-to: To: Eric Kjeldergaard Message-id: <20041026214201.GB867@procyon.nekulturny.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline References: <417D8C33.6080605@nc.rr.com> <200410261518.47337.ekeberg@bigpond.net.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: Hugh Ekeberg cc: Gert Cuykens cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: photoshop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:42:33 -0000 On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:02:14PM -0600, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: > On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:11:45 +0200, Gert Cuykens > wrote: > > Is there a way to translate photoshop files into gimp files and gimp > > into photoshop files ? > > If I'm understanding this right -- then of course, both editors (gimp > and photoshop) deal with jpegs, gifs, bmps, etc...it doesn't do much > good in the Real World (TM) to use crazy proprietary formats because > browsers/etc simply can't render them. True, but the crazy proprietary formats are still important because you lose information when you convert a Photoshop document to a raster image, in just the same way as you lose information when you convert a C source file into an object file. -- Danny