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

[silvio grosso]

Hello everybody,

I agree with everybody on the importance about the bugs list.
What about asking to the developer about such a list? After all,  we are not talking about C.I.A stuff :-)
I am sure many Spanish developers read this list. Certainly,  they have wrote down any problem concering the printing stuff.

About the features, sorry to state an obvious thing, but it is realy important to not "reinvent the wheel".
As Wolfgang declared it is really important to study carefully other softwares before asking for some feature to incorporate into gvSIG.
Me, for once, I would love see R incorporated into gvSIG to get statistical option. Nevertheless, I can do this with Grass or with Qgis 1 (thanks to a Summer of code project).
For the publishing part Scribus is really powerful. In particular, about the pdf stuff.
The developers are really friendly and in their Mailing list is very easy to get an answer.
The link for the  Scribus' roadmap is: http://bugs.scribus.net/roadmap_page.php
Here you can find the upcoming English Manual: http://documentation.scribus.net/index.php/TOC-en
Scribus works on many platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac) and there is a portable version for Windows as well.
 
In my view a good workflow could be: 
1. The option to save the gvSIG'S map as TIFF (with all its components: legend, Title and so forth). Plus, the option to choose the resolution (not certainly 72 dpi as a screen-shot).
2. Modify such an image with Gimp (naturally the Tiff should be Gimp "user-friendly").
3. Import the image in Scribus. 
A Summer of Code project sponsored by Google this year has seen the incorporation of the library of Image-Magick into Scribus in order to load many new formats into Scribus. 
This feature will be available with the realase of the 1.3.6 version.
Now the 1.3.5 is under devolopment. The 1.3.3. 12 version is the stable one.
4. Save the image as pdf from Scribus.
5. Modify the Pdf with an open-source software is the tricky part. 
At present, for example, a good sofware is pdf-edit (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit).
But it is really "young" and buggy. Plus, it only runs well on Linux and its development is really slow.

Best regards

Silvio


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