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

[José Antonio Canalejo Alonso]

I think it would be better if gvSIG could create the final printing file. In this case the user doesn´t need another software to continue working with the map or export in other formats.
José Antonio



----- Mensaje original ----
> De: Benjamin Ducke <benjamin.ducke at oxfordarch.co.uk>
> Para: Users and Developers mailing list <gvsig_internacional at runas.cap.gva.es>
> Enviado: miércoles, 15 de octubre, 2008 21:06:44
> Asunto: Re: [Gvsig_english] Again: high-quality printing: support of the development
> 
> 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" 
> To: "Users and Developers mailing list" 
> 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 
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> >      Scopri il blog di Yahoo! Mail:
> > Trucchi, novità e scrivi la tua opinione.
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> > 
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