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Re:We Need A Standard Layered Image Format by darkstalker on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @06:18PM (#5635227)
What about OpenRaster? It's used in open source apps like MyPaint and Gimp.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/OpenRaster

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Re:We Need A Standard Layered Image Format by angersock on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @06:21PM (#5635244)
If I can just use sqlite, than I don't have to open an archive, parse xml, and otherwise get into a bad mood (see their file layout here: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/OpenRaster/Dr...).
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Re:We Need A Standard Layered Image Format by eridius on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @06:22PM (#5635248)
> OpenRaster is an open exchange format for layered raster based graphics.

How's that going to work for vector images?

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Re:We Need A Standard Layered Image Format by franksalim on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @08:22PM (#5635739)
You can have SVG layers in OpenRaster. See: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/OpenRaster/Draft/...
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