A Way to Import PNGs with Recognized Layers?

[Richard Gaskin]

Ian Wood wrote:
> I think the '(sort of)' is the problem here...
> 
> As far as I can see, the official PNG format doesn't contain layers of  
> ANY kind <http://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/> so Fireworks must be using some  
> kind of custom variation on the file format.

Yep:  PNG includes a comments field, and Fireworks uses that comments 
field to stuff in their proprietary vector data.

To the best of my knowledge neither Macromedia nor Adobe has ever 
published the spec for what Fireworks does with that field.

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