Re: Reducing FF-made filters filesize...

["Ilya Razmanov" <ilyich@cacr.ioc.ac.ru>]

> >
> > I think maybe the trick is that Photoshop remembers plugins (includes
all
> > the info into a kind of ini file so next launch it hasn't load plugin at
> > startup to determine what is the category etc). If PS remembers plugins
> > only by filename (not date/size), it might get confused seen my original
> > plugins first. So then the compressed files with the same names appeared
> > and were called, it launched them and they got decompressed.
> >
> > Just a wild guess...
>
> You're right, Ilya. Photoshop has uses a kind of chache to
> remember the plugins, otherwise it would take very long to start up.
> Adobe Premiere e.g. doesn't use this technique and takes quite long
> to start up.
>
> If you give distribute the fully compressed plugins, Photoshop or any
> other host on other machines won't recognize them!

Like I said, I made a special test for that - I guess you just sent your
message before getting mine... Photoshop recognizes the filters that was
just created and immediately compressed (ie, compressed before photoshop
relaunched and found them) - so Photoshop didn't get a chance to remember
ones. And they work ok. Now I simply ran out of ideas what really happen...

BTW the only app I can remember that cache plugins info seems to be the
GIMP, at least its Win32 port I've seen. Very clever...

Cheers,

Ilyich