Completely and wholly agree with you on this. We already have an active relationship with Scribus, but would like to develop relationships with other DTP projects. We've even discussed developing a freedtp type organization to represent the interests and collective formats our projects represent.
I encourage you to hop onto our chat channel. You can learn more here about that: http://inkscape.org/discussion.php
We should get a bunch of topics to discuss and organize a time when a quorum of each dev. team can meet online to plow into this topic together.
Any more thoughts?
Jon
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 17:11, Bluefuture wrote:
It could be useful a collaboration between Passpartout (a GTK DTP projects like scribus) and Inkscape in particular for this todo point:
- Simple graphics directly in passepartout, probably as a subset of SVG, as well as being able to import SVG graphics.
Passpartout home page: http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/pptout/ For contact Passpartout developer managers: Fredrik Arnerup <e97_far@...270...> and Rasmus Kaj <kaj@...270...>.
Regars. Blue
From: Rasmus Kaj <kaj@...270...> To: passepartout@...273... Cc: e97_far@...270..., dbolack@...220... Subject: Re: [Passepartout] Re: XML2PS DTD Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 00:57:17 +0100
"d" == <dbolack@...220...> writes:
d> By chance, are ya'll ( the devs ) interested in participating in d> the Gnome-Office metaproject?
I don't think we're actively disinterested ... I'm suddenly finding that I have way to much to do, and there is a lot of things I would like to do inside Passepartout itself, so I probably won't look much into any metaprojects -- or even at Gnome integration in Passepartout -- for a while.
Btw, the things you might look for in Passepartout for me hopefully within a reasonable frame of time is:
Using font-familys properly (i.e. being able to inherit the font-family and specify just a weight or style).
Making the xml2ps input markup more similar to XSL-FO, or even a proper subset.
PDF support in passepartout.
Simple graphics directly in passepartout, probably as a subset of SVG, as well as being able to import SVG graphics.