{"id":15827,"date":"2009-05-09T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T07:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/05\/thoughts-on-fxg-design-and-motivation.html"},"modified":"2009-05-09T07:00:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T07:00:56","slug":"thoughts_on_fxg_design_and_motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/09\/thoughts_on_fxg_design_and_motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on FXG Design and Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2009\/05\/some_thoughts_about_psd.html\">mentioned<\/a> the new <a href=\"http:\/\/opensource.adobe.com\/wiki\/display\/flexsdk\/FXG+1.0+Specification\">FXG format<\/a> being developed to offer and easier a way to exchange data between Photoshop &amp; other applications.  The mention attracted some questions in the post&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2009\/05\/some_thoughts_about_psd.html#c1985098\">comments<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadcast.oreilly.com\/2009\/05\/adobe-fxg-and-ooxml-the-big-fi.html\">elsewhere<\/a>.  Adobe Sr. Principal Scientist Mark Anders was instrumental in the design of FXG, and now he&#8217;s posted his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andersblog.com\/archives\/2009\/05\/post.html\">Thoughts on FXG Design and Motivation<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a fairly geeky subject, but if you care about things like file formats and standards, you may find Mark&#8217;s post interesting.<\/p>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, I started petitioning Macromedia and Adobe <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/09\/dreams_undeferred.html\">ten years ago<\/a> for something like FXG for motion graphics&#8211;an XML-based way to move layers, keyframes, etc. between Flash, After Effects, and other tools.  Flash is at last moving away from the opaque FLA format to something called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moock.org\/blog\/archives\/000269.html\">XFL<\/a>, and FXG works hand in glove with XFL.  Progress can take a while, but dammit, it does happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday I mentioned the new FXG format being developed to offer and easier a way to exchange data between Photoshop &amp; other applications. The mention attracted some questions in the post&#8217;s comments &amp; elsewhere. Adobe Sr. Principal Scientist Mark Anders was instrumental in the design of FXG, and now he&#8217;s posted his Thoughts on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15827"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}