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

[Benjamin Ducke]

How much work would it be to allow gvSIG to export map layouts
in SVG format (with raster maps as embedded bitmaps)?

That way, map layouts could go straight into e.g. Inkscape
and be processed with all the great tools it has, before creating
the final printing press file.

I don't know much about SVG, but if it has an equivalent to layers,
then it should be easy to produce an SVG data structure that would
be easy to retouch in an illustration software.

Ben

----- Original Message -----
From: "José Antonio Canalejo Alonso" <jacanalejo at yahoo.es>
To: "Users and Developers mailing list" <gvsig_internacional at runas.cap.gva.es>
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:02:39 PM (GMT) Europe/London
Subject: Re: [Gvsig_english] Again: high-quality printing: support of the development

Hello Silvio,
spanish developers are thinking about the list you are talking to. You can write us the bugs you`ve found. We would like to Know them because it´s a kind of very important functionality.
I think your workflow is a good one but gvSIG should be able to create maps in the quality you need. It would be good to know the bugs and the wished functionalities.
Regards
José Antonio Canalejo



----- Mensaje original ----
> De: silvio grosso <grossosilvio at yahoo.it>
> Para: gvsig_internacional at runas.cap.gva.es
> Enviado: miércoles, 15 de octubre, 2008 17:22:09
> Asunto: [Gvsig_english] Again: high-quality printing: support of the development
> 
> 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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