Regarding the PSD File Format

From the source code comments for Xee, an open source Mac image viewer:

Earlier, I tried to get a hold of the latest specs for the PSD file format. To do this, I had to apply to [Adobe] 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.

(Via David Weiss.)

★ Friday, 24 April 2009