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From: robbel@fwi.uva.nl (Robert Belleman)
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Subject: Re: Intuition Image structure rendering utilities
Keywords: rendered intuition image PostScript IFF
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Date: 26 Mar 91 15:43:35 GMT
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m0154@tnc.UUCP (GUY GARNETT) writes:

>This is a Dard Good Idea!
>
>Because I like this idea so much, I will write up the spec, if no one
>else volunteers to (there are many other people on this group who are
>much more qualified to do it than I am).

I have this strange feeling in the stomach, guys ... I think this scheme
is a VERY BAD IDEA ... read on ...

>I have a couple of observations:
>
>How about generalising it to a conversions utility.  One of the good
>features of the Mac is that it has such a thing built into its
>clipboard; you can clip something out of one program, and paste it
>into another, usually without worring about it.

And do you know _why_ you don't have to worry about it ??  Because Apple
designed QuickDraw; a Picture Definition format that covers just about
everything that anyone would ever like to do with graphics. Most Mac-
program only supports ONE renderer : QuickDraw.

>If implemented as an independent task (perhaps with a support
>library), the conversions module could be made even more flexable. 
>Properly implemented, the conversions facility would be able to
>support most (or all?) of the current amiga standards (including
>internal formats, like the Intuituion Image), and be extensible, so
>that by adding some modules to a drawer somewere, the user could
>install support for tomorrows formats as well.

Just think about this; for every ~new~ format that comes into existence
a new conversion utility has to be written to convert into ANY other format
that exists to that date !!  How long do you think software developers can
keep that up ??!

[lots of stuff deleted ...]
>Sorry for the long post, but this is a good Idea, and we need to get
>working on implementing this thing.  The Amiga has been without it for
>far too long.

I agree on that last point; I think the Amiga needs something that the Mac
has had from the beginning. I believe it's a better idea to work on a Amiga
version of the QuickDraw library and MAYBE design converters to THIS format.
Who knows; the format you come up with might even be so good that it will be
an Amiga standard ...

If you like, look at it as a intermediate graphic format, I don't care ...

>Wildstar

-- Rob

Robert Belleman, University of Amsterdam.
(robbel@fwi.uva.nl)
-- 
Robert Belleman, University of Amsterdam.
(robbel@fwi.uva.nl)