[Gvsig_english] The Printing Issue: The "definitive" wish and development list ; )

[Wolfgang Qual]

Hi all,
I tried to collect all ideas and questions regarding the "printing-issue" and 
put it on a list. I would be glad, if you could go through it and add / 
change it. After completion, I would suggest that we give that list to the 
developers in order to "hear" their comments.
Important for me is that we start/keep on testing external applications like 
scribus. I would really appreciate, if we could organize that a little bit, 
collect some "reports" on that. It will help us to decide, what's really 
important for our purposes... And here comes the list:

1) Printing bugs
1.1) wms-layer is not exported when printing to pdf
1.2) printing size of labels different from size of labels in view / layout 
(map)
1.3) labels are not drawn on the map (Rory Hill, 6.6.08)
1.4) transformed labels of annotation layer are not drawn (6.6.08, Silvio 
Grosso)
1.5) printing to ps/pdf (large map) resulted in a uncomplete ps/pdf-file - 
even with quite some memory (25.7. Wolfgang Q)
1.6) North arrows (svg) loose quality when map is exported to pdf
1.7) all fonts should be embedded into ps/pdf-file (are they???)
1.8) elements of map are deleted when typing in name of output ps/pdf-file 
(Wolfgang, 16.10) -- known bug. When will it be resolved?

2) Development of printing module
2.1) Possibility to create printfiles ready for professional printing (pdf/x-3 
etc.)
2.2) Possibility to export to eps-format with different resolution (300, 600 
dpi) 
2.3) Export map to image format
2.3.1) tiff (best quality, compression yes/no
2.3.1) jpg, png
2.4) export map to vector format
2.4.1) svg
2.5) allow export of components of the map (not only the whole layout)
2.6) add functionality to add graticules and coordinates around the map (like 
in grass, gmt?) (new wish)


3) What we have to test:
3.1) try to load eps-files (big ones) into
3.1.1) scribus
3.1.2) sk1
3.2) test svg-import in scribus, check known issues
and make printfile (pdf/x-3) out of it. Report your findings to the list 
(stability of DTP program, is it an alternative to 2.1?)
3.3) import ps/pdf-files into scribus and report known issues (labels and 
outlines were not drawn in my case, import took very long)
3.4) clearify colour profile issue with ps/pdf - is colour profile mechanism 
needed for ps/pdf export
3.5) alternatives to sk1/scribus for converting eps/ps to pdf/x-3 etc. 
("professional printout file"): pdf-edit??? (silvio grosso, 15.10)
3.6) alternatives to scribus/sk1 for final map layout:
3.6.1) inkscape (but how to handle fact, that file can only be exported to 
png-file), plus: svg seems not to be accepted in the professional world... 
(Marcel, 15.10.)
     what about colour definition and svg?
3.6.2) GIMP (but where to export to: ps, eps, ...)
3.7) Test new symbology of coming gvSIG 2.0: which issues remain? Which can be 
done even better (please keep on testing devel-version)
3.8) check svg-import in software like scribus and export that to "known" 
printout file (pdf). issues?