Google code search uncovers a secret screed against Adobe's apparently arcane file format.http://digg.com/programming/Not_PSD_s_biggest_fanhttp://code.google.com/p/xee/source/browse/trunk/XeePhotoshopLoader.m?spec=svn28&r=11#107
// At this point, I'd like to take a moment to speak to you about the Adobe PSD format. // PSD is not a good format. PSD is not even a bad format. Calling it such would be an // insult to other bad formats, such as PCX or JPEG. No, PSD is an abysmal format. Having // worked on this code for several weeks now, my hate for PSD has grown to a raging fire // that burns with the fierce passion of a million suns. // If there are two different ways of doing something, PSD will do both, in different // places. It will then make up three more ways no sane human would think of, and do those // too. PSD makes inconsistency an art form. Why, for instance, did it suddenly decide // that *these* particular chunks should be aligned to four bytes, and that this alignement // should *not* be included in the size? Other chunks in other places are either unaligned, // or aligned with the alignment included in the size. Here, though, it is not included. // Either one of these three behaviours would be fine. A sane format would pick one. PSD, // of course, uses all three, and more. // Trying to get data out of a PSD file is like trying to find something in the attic of // your eccentric old uncle who died in a freak freshwater shark attack on his 58th // birthday. That last detail may not be important for the purposes of the simile, but // at this point I am spending a lot of time imagining amusing fates for the people // responsible for this Rube Goldberg of a file format. // Earlier, I tried to get a hold of the latest specs for the PSD file format. To do this, // I had to apply to them for permission to apply to them to have them consider sending // me this sacred tome. This would have involved faxing them a copy of some document or // other, probably signed in blood. I can only imagine that they make this process so // difficult because they are intensely ashamed of having created this abomination. I // was naturally not gullible enough to go through with this procedure, but if I had done // so, I would have printed out every single page of the spec, and set them all on fire. // Were it within my power, I would gather every single copy of those specs, and launch // them on a spaceship directly into the sun. // // PSD is not my favourite file format.
4/23/2009 2:29:55 AM
lawlz
4/23/2009 8:33:17 AM
heh that's a pretty good one
4/23/2009 9:15:07 AM
Tell that stupid Englishman to stop his bitchin..... "favourite" psh
4/23/2009 11:42:54 AM
// lol
4/25/2009 6:22:17 AM
I like searching the code base for cursing and "wtf".
4/25/2009 7:28:38 AM
wasnt there a thread for these kind of things like a year ago
4/25/2009 1:47:24 PM
i think that thread was about error messages
4/25/2009 6:45:34 PM
lol pretty good
4/25/2009 6:52:13 PM
I think you just like British whit.
4/25/2009 8:02:28 PM