Changes to Loaders & Savers


Here are a list of the most important changes to the Loaders and Savers in Photogenics. Read the File Formats Index for more information.

ANIM.gio

An ANIM.gio has been added to control loading and creation of animation frames in the standard IFF-Anim format.


GIF.gio

The GIF.gio, now included as a freely-distributable public domain GIO module, has been enhanced to support writing GIF files. See the section on the GIF.gio for further information.


JPEG.gio

JPEG.gio has been updated to support the latest version of the Independent JPEG group compression code. The major benefit this offers is the addition of 'Progressive JPEG' support.


IFFDeep.gio

Photogenics now saves the current paint layer (unfixed painting) within an IFF-Deep file, so you can save a project and return to work on it without having to fix any uncomplete changes. This data will be ignored by other programs that deal with IFF-Deep data.


PNG.gio

PNG.gio is new, and provides support for the new Portable Network Graphics format. This is intended as a replacement for the old GIF format for use on internet (web pages, etc), and is now fully supported in Photogenics.


ILBM.gio (and what happened to IFF-24, HAM6 and HAM8?)

Previous versions of Photogenics had different GIOs for saving ILBM, IFF-24, HAM6 and HAM8 format files, although the ILBM.gio loaded all the different types. All of these have now been combined into the one .gio file, so HAM6, HAM8 and IFF-24 are just new options on the ILBM file save requester. A new option has been added to allow you to securely encrypt IFF image files.


Targa.gio

Photogenics now saves the current paint layer (unfixed painting) within a Targa file, so you can save a project and return to work on it without having to fix any uncomplete changes. This data is stored as the alpha data in the file, and can be read by other applications that support the use of 32-bit Targa files (eg. Photoshop)


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