RE: [sarif] Image files: wait just a minute here!

Ok, so we might indeed have really tied ourselves into knots. Your original text, perhaps with the addition of emphasizing that this construct is relevant for raster image formats only, was right (including the use of the term pixels).

In hindsight, I personally regret my contributions to this discussion.

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From: sarif@lists.oasis-open.org <sarif@lists.oasis-open.org> On Behalf Of Larry Golding (Comcast)
Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2018 4:55 PM
To: sarif@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [sarif] Image files: wait just a minute here!

We got tied up in knots this morning discussing how to draw rectangles on files like PDF and SVG. But PDF is not an image format. If a SARIF producer wants to draw rectangles on a PDF, it can take a screenshot, or use a PDF-to-JPEG converter. Likewise, SVG (although unquestionably an image format) is a text representation. A SARIF producer could specify a region containing the XML elements of interest, and a viewer that knows how to render SVG could add the necessary decorations to highlight the area. Or again, the producer could convert to a pixel-based image file.

We can certainly continue to talk about improvements to image-like attachments, but I propose we limit “rectangle” support to pixel-based image files, and suggest “take a screenshot” or “convert to JPEG or PNG” for anything else. After all, the original motivation for what became generic image support was precisely that: screenshots.

Larry

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