aseprite / aseprite/psd

Undocumented fields

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Description

As reported by @iamOgunyinka, in the [specs](https://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/#50577411_21585) some items in the Reference Structure are not documented:

```
'Idnt' = Identifier
'indx' = Index
'name' = Name
```

We have to find some extra documentation to be able to read or skip this information, or reverse engineering them. E.g. maybe 'name' is just a Unicode string.

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Research direction

Start with the linked Adobe Photoshop file-format specification and inspect the library's handling of the Reference Structure. Determine whether the Idnt, indx, and name fields can be documented, read, or safely skipped; completion requires resolving their meaning or documenting their handling, but no source file or test is named.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
documentation, reverse-engineering
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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