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

[silvio grosso]

Hello Wolfgang and all,

First of all thank you very much for your hard work regarding this list. 
No wonder Germans are everywhere famous about their precision :-)

Regarding the Map's list I would like to add something in the bugs' list.
In the map there is a bug well known by Spanish developers regarding the export to pdf function.
When you change the colour in the background in the View from white to something else (e.g. yellow) and your map has this background (yellow) such a colour is "lost" in the pdf exported (the pdf background is always white).
I verified this bug both on Windows xp and Windows 2000 with the latest gvSIG release.

About the wish-list, Spanish developers asked us to write something else so here it is:
1. My first wish is having no bugs regarding the map tool. Actually, I know it is impossible so bear with me :-) 
2. Speaking seriously, I would like to have the option to draw some arrows in the map. At present, you can only draw lines (no arrows).
Another option is to create an arrow with Inkscape and import it as svg in the gvSIG's map.
3. It would be good to rotate the North arrow and colour them (as you can do with the other tools in the map). 
At present, you can modifiy the North arrow with Inkscape and load your version in the gvSIG's map.
3. Another wish is to have an option to choose my shortcut regarding a tool in the Map (or in the View) 
The easy way for developers could be add some shortcuts by default (now there are few shortcuts in my opinion). 
The very best is the option to add some personal shortcuts.
This is very important when you work with a graphical software (Blender is famous for its shortcut). 
Working with Gimp, I find quicker using the keybord instead of the mouse (I only press something and the tool gets activated). 
In the end you learn all shortcuts by heart.

About the testing part I would like to add something about Scribus,
Scribus development is proceding slower than expected!
The really good version will be the 1.3.6 one but it is really far...
All Scribus developers are volunters so it is nobody's fault!
In short, right now, it is important to use the 1.3.3.12 version not the 1.3.5 one which is not ready yet.
I can do some testing with Scribus in the future.
Unfortunately, right now, I am translating the gvSIG's manual into Italian. 
I suspect the other Italians translators are going to kill me if I don't finish my translation part quickly :-)

Best regards,

Silvio





----- Messaggio originale -----
Da: Wolfgang Qual <wolfgang.qual at gmx.net>
A: gvsig_internacional at runas.cap.gva.es
Inviato: Venerdì 24 ottobre 2008, 11:21:20
Oggetto: [Gvsig_english] The Printing Issue: The "definitive" wish and development list ; )

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?
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