.image 'renaming'

Moses · Post by **Moses** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:23 am

whats the deeper sense on the file renaming-marathon beside that image-editing/viewing software dont know anymore what image-format is behind a .image file?

Post by **safemode** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:45 am

all software should rely on magic mime typing to determine filetype (where such a distinction can be made), not something stupid like extensions. Extensions are for humans.

Since over time the desired codec used for images changes with the available technology, we decided that a codec agnostic extension was the best course of action to stop the constant confusion that people experience when the filename's extension doesn't match the real codec used. So, this one renaming and redownload is to stop any need to change the names ever again whenever we change the underlying datatype and to stop user confusion over conflicting info. It should have been done long ago, but always put off to not force the redownload.

No application worth using should give any problem about .image file loading.

edit: it's likely that if your application cant load a .image, that it doesn't have a decoder for the underlying codec. In most cases that would be DDS files. try gimp, or something else with a dds plugin.

Post by **loki1950** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:19 pm

Also infranview for windows has the dds plug-in if you get the full zip archive.

Enjoy the Choice