Inkscape and the Gimp, gradients.
Those of you who are also on the OpenClipart.org mailing list may have noticed that the Gimp now allows the use of SVG Gradients. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148127
The support is in CVS and there has not yet been a release that has included but there should be another 2.1.x release soon.
Sven Neuman added the feature, and I'm well pleased. Now I'll be able to use the same files for both Inkscape and Gimp and use a standardised file format. The gradient file can contain a single gradient or multiple gradients. The parser has some flexibility with regards to the formatting used by the gradients. The gradients are read only for now.
Another recently added feature that I requested was support for using standard file formats for Patterns. As GDKPixbuf was used and because there is an option to use librsvg to add SVG support to GDKpixbuf it should be possible to use SVG patterns directly in the Gimp too. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140443
Futher testing of and feedback on the SVG Gradient support would be very much appreciated.
DND support could be added in time but it will require work from Inkscape. Sven would like to do this if Inkscape developers will do the necessary work on their side, and he asked me to pass on that request.
I'm in a bit of a hurry otherwise i would have phrased this better and more clearly. There is also the distinct possibility that this account will be temporarily unavailable due to maintainance for the next few days so I may have to catch up on Monday or sign up with a different account.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
Excellent Alan!
Similar to our previous meeting with the SCRIBUS folks, we seriously need to have a pow-wow with the GIMP folks (as well as the mozilla-svg ppl who expressed much interest in this relationship).
Jon
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 08:53, Alan Horkan wrote:
Those of you who are also on the OpenClipart.org mailing list may have noticed that the Gimp now allows the use of SVG Gradients. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148127
The support is in CVS and there has not yet been a release that has included but there should be another 2.1.x release soon.
Sven Neuman added the feature, and I'm well pleased. Now I'll be able to use the same files for both Inkscape and Gimp and use a standardised file format. The gradient file can contain a single gradient or multiple gradients. The parser has some flexibility with regards to the formatting used by the gradients. The gradients are read only for now.
Another recently added feature that I requested was support for using standard file formats for Patterns. As GDKPixbuf was used and because there is an option to use librsvg to add SVG support to GDKpixbuf it should be possible to use SVG patterns directly in the Gimp too. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140443
Futher testing of and feedback on the SVG Gradient support would be very much appreciated.
DND support could be added in time but it will require work from Inkscape. Sven would like to do this if Inkscape developers will do the necessary work on their side, and he asked me to pass on that request.
I'm in a bit of a hurry otherwise i would have phrased this better and more clearly. There is also the distinct possibility that this account will be temporarily unavailable due to maintainance for the next few days so I may have to catch up on Monday or sign up with a different account.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
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On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Jon Phillips wrote:
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:16:25 -0700 From: Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> Cc: Inkscape Mailing List inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape and the Gimp, gradients.
Excellent Alan!
I'd encourage you to thank Sven.
Similar to our previous meeting with the SCRIBUS folks, we seriously need to have a pow-wow with the Gimp folks (as well as the mozilla-svg ppl who expressed much interest in this relationship).
The Gimp developers seem to be on irc.gnome.org #gimp very often so it should be relatively easy to arrange a time for a meeting on IRC like you did with Scribus.
Of course everyone is welcome to join their developer mailing list http://gimp.org/mail_lists.html as well as filing bug reports and feature requests.
The Gimp supports cut and paste between applications but so far there are not many applications (except Abiword) that make use of it yet and I'm sure it is something the Gimp developers would like Inkscape to support soon.
It could be very useful if Inkscape exported files to Layered MNG instead of needing to flatten everything on export, maybe Inkscape could share some of the code the Gimp uses for MNG? I suppose the SVG importer in the Gimp is already good enough though, which just makes it more important that Inkscape follows standards and works well with librsvg.
I'm sure there are lots more things that could be done to better integrate things but I gotta go...
Sincerely
Alan Horkan.
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