On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 01:09 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
a) being able to cancel effect or change its settings at a later stage (because we can do it with SVG filters);
While some of these things can be done with SVG filters, that isn't the goal here. It is to adjust the bitmaps. This is useful for lots of things, but one of them off the top of my head is use an SVG file on a renderer that doesn't support filters. The goal is to provide basic bitmap editing functionality so that you don't have to take your bitmaps into GIMP.
b) being able to apply these effects to a group of vector objects (Inkscape would create a bitmap copy of selection and apply changes to it).
I would be curious what people think about this. I mean, that is one keypress less (no alt-b) but I'm more worried that it would cause confusion for a large group of users.
Also, "Preview" checkbox is lacking.
Since these are using the effects framework that'll come when all the effects have it (hopefully shortly, a few bugs to work out yet).
And we need all effects be covered in docs. See, I googled for reference on IM effects we use and found only partial description.
Yes, more documentation would be good. For now I think the best documentation is in the man page for convert:
http://amath.colorado.edu/computing/software/man/convert.html
The options are all of the filters that are implemented.
--Ted