Community support for creating PDF Export/Import feature
A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to meet Brandon Sanders when he visited OSDL about a conference he's organizing. He's also a long time Inkscape user and fan.
Brandon's also involved in IBESI, an org that helps ordinary people create and run R&D projects. He's been looking for good guinea pigs. It struck me that this could be one way to meet our PDF export/import needs. It seems to fit Brandon's model very well. The community needs this feature badly, and users may be willing to fund development if there's a solid plan and concensus.
Anyway, to keep this email short, I'm going to gloss over a lot of details and just post the link:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PrintingConsensusPoll
PLEASE, if you are interested in Inkscape PDF, do this:
1. Go to the above page 2. Vote "NO" (since there's no proposal yet)
Once we get 20 people participating, we can move to the next step (see the page for details).
Bryce
Hello everybody, I haven't said anything in a while, and I have a quick question. I was looking into implementing SVG Filters several months ago, when you guys said I might want to wait until Inkscape got Cairoized. Well, so I fell out of touch for a while, and now I'm just wondering where Inkscape's Cairoification is at. I love inkscape and one of the only shortcomings that I continously run into is the inability to create real soft drop shadows, halos, embosses, and other raster effects. So are we almost cairoized, or do we already have plans for imlementing SVG filters?
Thanks Edward
Wow, already we're half-way towards the first part of the contract - having 20 inkscape enthusiasts involved. If we can get 10 more people interested in PDF to participate, we'll meet the minimum to be able to start.
http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PrintingConsensusPoll
Also, it's clear we need a better plan, so please take a look at what's been written so far, and help scope out something better!
Bryce
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 11:05:01PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to meet Brandon Sanders when he visited OSDL about a conference he's organizing. He's also a long time Inkscape user and fan.
Brandon's also involved in IBESI, an org that helps ordinary people create and run R&D projects. He's been looking for good guinea pigs. It struck me that this could be one way to meet our PDF export/import needs. It seems to fit Brandon's model very well. The community needs this feature badly, and users may be willing to fund development if there's a solid plan and concensus.
Anyway, to keep this email short, I'm going to gloss over a lot of details and just post the link:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PrintingConsensusPollPLEASE, if you are interested in Inkscape PDF, do this:
- Go to the above page
- Vote "NO" (since there's no proposal yet)
Once we get 20 people participating, we can move to the next step (see the page for details).
Bryce
participants (2)
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Bryce Harrington -
Edward Flick