I had a problem loading TIFF's with alpha channels in Imlib2 as they seemed to be coming out very dark. I noticed in the source code that, on saving, there was a comment about premultiplying if there's an alpha component but no corrollary in the loading method.

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At someone else's behest at work I spent a couple of days writing something called Pel::Mel. Basically it acted as a bridge between Perl and MEL, the Maya Embedded Language. The advantages of this are huge - you get support for namespaces and CPAN within MEL and we can do a much better job centrally installing and versioning extensions. The way it ( Read more... )