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by tambourine_man 991 days ago
And PSD is notoriously complicated. I remember reading some rant by an open source developer and there were things along the lines of different endianness in the same file.

It’s a 30+ year old format that went to multiple transitions. I don’t envy the poor soul that has to reverse engineer it.

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> I remember reading some rant by an open source developer

This one? https://github.com/gco/xee/blob/4fa3a6d609dd72b8493e52a68f31...

I took a look at the git blame, and the commit title is perfect.

https://github.com/gco/xee/commit/750196023da5457d9535b30299...

My favorite part is the immediately followed //sanity check, too apt.
Fantastic read, thanks.
That’s the one yes, thanks.