Re: Image size, DPI (was Re: Gorm is broken)

[Fred Kiefer]

On 04.05.2011 03:51, Eric Wasylishen wrote:
> On 2011-05-03, at 2:28 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> > Cocoa supprts also ICNS with multiple res images which is very good
> > for things like icons in the workspace or the dock. It is also very
> > good when supplying smaller images. For example 16x16 or 32x32 look
> > much better if supplied instead of precomputed.
>
> Agreed. It turns out GNUstep already supported reading multi-image
> TIFF's. NSImage just need _bestRep:withResolutionMatch: implemented,
> which I just did.

The same would be true for all the other bitmap formats if we hadn't
started off with a completely wrong interface to load the data. The
method NSBitmapImagerep imageRepsWithData: needs to be rewritten and of
course this requires to rewrite all the specific format handlers.

I always wanted to do this, but never got around to it...