--------- Original Message -------- Da: passepartout@...273... To: "passepartout@...273..." <passepartout@...273...> Cc: "Dylan VanHerpen" <dvanherpen@...210...> Oggetto: Re: [Passepartout] PPT + Inkscape Data: 23/05/04 22:32
Dylan VanHerpen <dvanherpen@...210...> writes:
Fredrik,
Hey, I'm just half the development team :-)
I'm impressed with the functionality already present in Passepartout, and anxiously waiting for the next update. Like others, I'd like SVG support, truetype font support and better type handling.
TrueType support is being worked on. Type handling?
I've also been using Inkscape, which already is very useable for single page layouts (especially when the Pango conversion is completed with the next release). It seems to me that Inkscape and PPT complement each other rather well. What would you think about combining the strengths of both efforts, and developing PPT as a layout module for Inkscape? Inkscape seems to be further along in terms of font handling (Pango), vector graphics and object layering (with alpha-blending). Combining the two would make for a kick-ass DTP solution with a great universal document format.
Collaboration with Inkscape has been suggested before and it certainly makes a lot of sense, though I don't think merging the programs is a good idea.
Inkscape seems to have a very nice version of the gnome canvas, more capable than the vanilla version, which I'm not even sure has a maintainer.
I don't know if Pango has much to do with the font support in Inkscape. Inkscape can convert fonts to Beziér curves. I don't think it could do that without reading the font files. We'd like to know how it manages to find out what font files correspond to which fonts in X.
We haven't been in touch with any of the Inkscape devs though.