Subject: Re: On the Road to version 1.0
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Dec 21 2001 - 04:14:48 CST
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
>
> But in the business world vector
> drawings are definitely preferred to raster images, especially for
> printing. There is no way you'll get me to put a raster version of
> the logo for any of the companies I work for on paper. No way I'll
> rasterize a vector based map, a barcode or any such vecor drawing.
>
> And CMYK vs. ICC cs. RGBA is meaningless on a monochrome laser. Resolution
> is where it's at.
>
> .EPS has the rather strong advantage of translating in vector format
> all the way to the printer. It's also just about the simplest possible
> import format to deal with. The WP must select the frame size and
> position, that's it. The postscript just gets translated and shipped
> on out. No scaling, no preview, no nothin' needed. It's all the printer's
> problem.
>
Actually this is quite a powerful argument, except for actually drawing it
on the screen, it would be very easy for the unix side of things. At some
stage will need code to convert between different vector formats. there is
a nice little unix utility, pstoedit, which converts postscript to various
vector formats.
pstoedit is GPL'd software although I think the SVG output is generated by
a shareware plugin. The SVG plugin may be GPL'd of course. Legally it
should be if it is linked to pstoedit.
Anyway check it out at: http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit
It would make a cool little plugin one day :-)
BTW since we don't have a working SVG implementation I think this will
have to wait until post 1.0.
Cheers
Martin
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