On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 00:13 -0300, bulia byak wrote:
On 10/11/06, MenTaLguY <mental@...3...> wrote:
Well, I'm thinking specifically of the case where the author (for whatever reason -- artistic effect?) provides an explicit filterRes. We need to make sure that can take precedence.
Yes - though right now we just ignore filterRes and always render it at the current zoom's resolution. And when we use supersampling, the results are smoothly interpolated, so they don't look "pixelated" as filterRes would imply. So it seems to me that filterRes should be orthogonal to our own supersampling+interpolation rendering hack (used for display only).
Aside from that, we probably also need to think about making the various rendering quality settings settable separately for editing and for bitmap export.
Currently bitmap export uses highest quality. Perhaps the only reason why anyone would want to change that is that it may become very slow at high resolutions. So if anyone is using Inkscape for commandline bitmap export in time-critical applications (e.g. on a web server), and if you run into slowness issues, let me know and I'll add a quality setting for bitmap export.
I think this would be a great idea, as Open Clip Art Library uses Inkscape to make thumbnails. Yes, hopefully it can be abstracted for other filetypes as well (this type of quality setting, jpeg, gif, etc).
Jon