> Eek. TIFF is very much alive in the print media world..! Just declaring it
> sucky is not going to help a lot :|
You don't have to declare it sucky. It is sucky by itself :-)
> I also heard TIFF is the only format you can supply with a "clipping path"
> from photoshop that a DTP package supports. So you can define the image
> outline from the paint program with a path, then say "This is the clipping
> path for this image" and save it as TIFF. This would be neat for sodipodi,
> sketch and whatnot.. any clue if we could do something similar or does
> anyone know if something like this exists for other formats too? It would be
> useful since the path will always be more accurate than some clipping object
> you define in the vector program..
It shouldn't be hard to stick an SVG path in a PNG extension chunk.
If enough apps use it, it will become a standard.
Federico