[Gimp-docs] FW: technical question

[Sven Neumann]

Hi,

On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 10:15 -0400, Sally C. Barry wrote:

> There is a comment in x.xml, about XCF that says:
> 
>  <!-- FIXME: no This is not true, RLE compression is used in XCF. I have
>    rewritten it in the Czech version already. Somebody
>    translating it to english?
>  -->
> 
> Can anyone tell me what this is about?  Does the English still need
> changing?  If so, what should it say?

The english documentation is indeed wrong here. The XCF format uses
compression. Nothing fancy, but it uses a lossless run-length encoding
scheme. The docs claim that each byte of image data would equal one byte
in the XCF file. That's just plain wrong. I would suggest that this
entire section is removed. It's probably worth noting that XCF files can
become large and that they can be compressed uing for example gzip.


Sven