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

[Fran]

Hi Ben.

It's something I was thinking long time ago. Maybe 2-3 weeks can be 
enough, but.... bugs are sometimes difficult to find ;-)

Regards.

Fran Peñarrubia.
gvSIG team.

Benjamin Ducke escribió:
> 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
>
>
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> ----- 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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