> Manga Studio/Clip Studio Paint's file format is interesting as well: it's just an SQLite database, with raster data stored as blobs. Not going to implement th

> Manga Studio/Clip Studio Paint's file format is interesting as well: it's just an SQLite database, with raster data stored as blobs. Not going to implement that for Krita either. I'm curious why? I'm not trying to start anything, but I remember this discussion from a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23509914 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23509914 > I wish my predecessor at Krita had made that choice (sqlite), instead of choosing to re-use the KOffice xml-based file format that's basically a zip file with stuff in it. It would have made adding the animation feature so much easier. To summarize the benefits to something like sqlite over zip+xml (not all were made by that author) is; update in place means not having to overwrite the whole file, not inventing xml format for describing an image, not needing to keep the entire representation in-memory, a longer saving process is more fragile, incremental loading.