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- // 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.
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