Re: [Inkscape-devel] Multi-page UI
Hi,
Just in case anyone's interested, I've been writing a program called Laidout to lay out cartoon books of mine. It features sort of arbitrary impositions, including the ability to have non-rectangular pages. It does make a distinction between page, paper, and also page spreads (how it looks assembled, rather than how it looks on master printing pages). No art, trim, crop, bleed, and media box tags yet though.
It has a viewer window where you edit the things in the pages, and also a spread editor, where you can rearrange page orders. One of my TODO items for a long time has been to somehow port my spread editor (after it gets a little more advanced) to Inkscape. There are just not enough hours in the day!
Unless you happen to be me, Laidout's probably difficult to use, as everything's still in rough, primitive stages right now, but you can get the idea from these screenshots:
http://www.laidout.org/screenshots
I started writing Laidout years ago as an exercise to learn how to program better. It's been a much larger endeavor than I had at first been imagining, meaning the code's rather a mess, but I do get to lay out my books pretty easily!
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 10:35 -0700, Tom Lechner wrote:
Just in case anyone's interested, I've been writing a program called Laidout to lay out cartoon books of mine. It features sort of arbitrary impositions, including the ability to have non-rectangular pages. It does make a distinction between page, paper, and also page spreads (how it looks assembled, rather than how it looks on master printing pages).
Wow, this is amazing. Net impositions in particular.
I'll be sure to give Laidout a mention when I give my talk at LGM about creating comics in Inkscape.
FWIW, I've also written my own package for handling layout and impressions for my comics, which (weird coincidence) I released this morning:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/minicomic
However, is a lot more modest in terms of its goals and capabilities: it's pretty much hard-coded for 5.5x8.5 folio minicomics. You just throw the page and/or spread SVGs in the directory and it does its thing.
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