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Support for DDS

Danny Suls
2012-02-24
2013-03-27
  • Danny Suls

    Danny Suls - 2012-02-24

    We've been using GraphicsMagick for a while in our project, but recently we had to switch to ImageMagick because we required DDS (Microsoft DirectDraw surface) support.

    So ImageMagick supports it, but GraphicsMagick doesn't. However, I would prefer to switch to GraphicsMagick again if it would support DDS.

    Can it be done? Pretty please with sugar on top?

     
  • Bob Friesenhahn

    Bob Friesenhahn - 2012-02-24

    DDS support was contributed to ImageMagick by someone named Bianca van Schaik who is a game developer from the Netherlands.  Since implementing DDS looks like a lot of work, it would be useful if interested parties would contact Bianca to see if the original contribution can be contributed to GraphicsMagick under GraphicsMagick's X11-style license.  Otherwise we would need a volunteer with the time and energy to develop this as an independent work.

     
  • Bob Friesenhahn

    Bob Friesenhahn - 2012-02-24

    The web site by Bianca is at http://pecunia.nerdcamp.net/.  Her patch was posted at http://pecunia.nerdcamp.net/static/files/imagemagick-dds.patch. We would need Bianca's approval to use and distribute this original work, but with the GraphicsMagick license header rather than the ImageMagick license header.

     

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