On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, bulia byak wrote:
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:09:53 -0300 From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> To: MenTaLguY <mental@...3...> Cc: Inkscape Development Mailing List inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: blur quality/speed settings
On 10/11/06, MenTaLguY <mental@...3...> wrote:
Er, so what does this slider control, exactly?
Not a slider - it's a set of radio buttons.
This seems like a very fine grained level of control when two or three levels might be enough for 99% of users.
You might be interested to take a look at Macromedia Freehand. It has a menu item for "Fast Mode" and along side that another menu item for "KeyLine Mode" the combination of both results in much faster rendering. Fast mode reduce the amount blending to very low levels. Keyline works very much like Wireframe mode in Inkscape but as far as I can tell from the documentation it does leave out some lines for faster rendering (hence "Key line"). Maybe you dont want to take the same approach but I do hope it is of interest to know about it.
It does seem like there will be times where accuracy gets traded off against speed but if I recall conversations correctly Inkscape developer go for accuracy. Some kind of quality/speed control to help balance that out for certain users makes a lot of sense so I'm glad to see this being developed.
I don't think so. No more "conformance problems" than with Outline mode, anyway. Unlike Outline, it looks reasonably blur-like even at lowest settings.
I really hope the name will be changed from Outline mode, since it was so often describe as Wireframe mode. Before anyone asks I did file a request a while back: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1538427&gro...
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Alan Horkan
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