editing panorams in gimp (multiple layers)

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 06.10.03, 12:47 -0700 schrieb JD Smith:

> I use gimp-server, and batch convert the TIFF files directly to xcf.
> It's much faster than actually opening the images and using up memory to
> display them.  I stole the code from the plugin, and converted it to run
> in stand-alone mode without any display (attached).  Then I use
> something like:
>
> gimp --batch '(extension-perl-server 0 0 0)' &
> gimp_pt myscript
>
> You need to run PTStitcher both for the masks and the images themselves,
> which is wasteful, since it computes all the distortions twice.  This is
> the kind of thing we could fix if we had the PTStitcher code (not to
> mention just outputting XCF directly, and saving ourself all this
> trouble).

XCF like PSD is not as good known as an well documented format like tiff
or png , best with ppm. XCF is only at source level documented, which
produced some trouble for other applications than gimp, including further
hugin output. IMHO we should do primarily png/tiff for compatibility.

> JD
>