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What survives a round trip through OpenRaster for blend modes, groups, adjustment layers and bit depth, per the spec and Krita's implementation?

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OpenRaster baseline fixes a closed svg: composite-op list (default svg:src-over) and isolation semantics but leaves pixel storage and blend mathematics to referenced specs. Krita writes blend modes outside that list as krita:<id> (exclusion mapping commented out), saves adjustment layers as a filter element carrying only an applications:krita:<name> type, and reloads them with the filter's default configuration into an rgb8 image, so filter settings and higher bit depth do not round-trip through this code path (code inference). Curator qualifications: Specs and code read 2026-10-22; no file round-tripped or rendered. Round-trip loss inferred from the two visitor files; other Krita code paths not read. file-layout-spec (S26) not re-read. Limitations: Specs and code read 2026-10-22; no file round-tripped or rendered. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/KDE/websites-openraster-org/blob/febacf9ae879a95fc9200d5bccb67d15db4de298/baseline/layer-stack-spec.rst",
      "note": "openraster.org baseline/layer-stack-spec.rst at febacf9a (raw), intro and composite-op table; krita plugins/impex/ora/kis_open_raster_stack_save_visitor.cpp at ec6a328c (raw), L93-L94, L163; krita kis_open_raster_stack_load_visitor.cpp at ec6a328c (raw), L96, L233"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/KDE/websites-openraster-org/blob/febacf9ae879a95fc9200d5bccb67d15db4de298/baseline/file-layout-spec.rst",
      "note": "openraster.org baseline/layer-stack-spec.rst at febacf9a (raw), intro and composite-op table; krita plugins/impex/ora/kis_open_raster_stack_save_visitor.cpp at ec6a328c (raw), L93-L94, L163; krita kis_open_raster_stack_load_visitor.cpp at ec6a328c (raw), L96, L233"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/KDE/krita/blob/ec6a328c805b397dddbacd48d5e1a950540c0792/plugins/impex/ora/kis_open_raster_stack_save_visitor.cpp",
      "note": "openraster.org baseline/layer-stack-spec.rst at febacf9a (raw), intro and composite-op table; krita plugins/impex/ora/kis_open_raster_stack_save_visitor.cpp at ec6a328c (raw), L93-L94, L163; krita kis_open_raster_stack_load_visitor.cpp at ec6a328c (raw), L96, L233"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/KDE/krita/blob/ec6a328c805b397dddbacd48d5e1a950540c0792/plugins/impex/ora/kis_open_raster_stack_load_visitor.cpp",
      "note": "openraster.org baseline/layer-stack-spec.rst at febacf9a (raw), intro and composite-op table; krita plugins/impex/ora/kis_open_raster_stack_save_visitor.cpp at ec6a328c (raw), L93-L94, L163; krita kis_open_raster_stack_load_visitor.cpp at ec6a328c (raw), L96, L233"
    }
  ]
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Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] OpenRaster baseline fixes a closed svg: composite-op list (default svg:src-over) and isolation semantics but leaves pixel storage and blend mathematics to referenced specs. Krita writes blend modes outside that list as krita:<id> (exclusion mapping commented out), saves adjustment layers as a filter element carrying only an applications:krita:<name> type, and reloads them with the filter's default configuration into an rgb8 image, so filter settings and higher bit depth do not round-trip through this code path (code inference). · locator: openraster.org baseline/layer-stack-spec.rst at febacf9a (raw), intro and composite-op table; krita plugins/impex/ora/kis_open_raster_stack_save_visitor.cpp at ec6a328c (raw), L93-L94, L163; krita kis_open_raster_stack_load_visitor.cpp at ec6a328c (raw), L96, L233 source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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