[Gvsig_english] Again: high-quality printing: support of the development

[Chris Puttick]

----- "Wolfgang Qual" <Wolfgang.Qual at gmx.net> wrote:
> Dear list,
> some months ago, we had an interesting discussion about gvSIG and
> high-quality printing [1]. For our office, creation of high-quality
> prints or print files is important. One project of our Department is a
> cycle map which is printed by an external printing office. Therefore,
> a special pre-press file (pdf/x-3 or similar) is needed. Currently,
> this job is done using ArcGIS --> eps-Export and Acrobat Distiller to
> create such a file, but as we really would like to switch to FOSS, we
> would like to be able to do that in gvSIG.
> However, at the moment, quality of ps/pdf output in gvSIG is limited
> and/or buggy. For example,
> * not all symbology information is written to ps/pdf
> * gvSIG seems to have problems with large files (ok this might be
> solve with lots of RAM)
> * additional options for export are missing (resolution etc.)
> * eps-file export is not possible
> * other export formats, such as tiff. 
> 
> Curently, exporting the layout to image files is limited (formats and
> problems with large files [2]. Whereas a solution of-a-piece (create a
> ready-to-print pdf/x-file) would be very cool, there is still a
> possibility to do the pre-press in other applications like scribus or
> (thanks for the hint, Marcel) sk1 which are both open source products.
> However, both applications might still be unstable (scribus and large
> files? sk1?). We will have to test this, and I would like to ask you
> all to contribute!
> 
> 
> The list above surely is not exhausive I think. So, the first task
> would be to accomplish the needs in order to specify the real needs.
> 
> As this printing stuff is quite lots of development work, we then will
> have to sponsor the development (or we will have to wait very, very
> long, I fear). Therefore, I would like to ask the "community", if
> there is someone out there, who would be willing to join in sponsoring
> the development of printing functionalities of gvSIG. Our
> organisation, the Department of Health and Environment is willing to
> contribute, but I fear that we cannot bear all development costs.

We too would like a solution and would be willing to contribute to the development.

Regards

Chris

> What is your opinion?
> 
> Best,
> Wolfgang
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> [1]
> http://www.nabble.com/Some-questions-regarding-printing-to18648153.html#a18648153
> [2] http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=18731062&framed=y
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