First, I apologize in advance if this is the wrong forum for this kind of question.
I've been getting up to speed on Inkscape and Scribus. I'd like to get up to speed much faster and would be happy to pay someone to help me do that. If you are interested please email me at myinger@...1835...
Hi All,
I haven't gotten a single flame for my posting, but I've gotten curiosity about what we are doing with Inkscape, so I thought I'd say a little more.
We have proprietary C++ code for doing variable data printing. We aren't really interested in being variable data design experts and are moving in a direction that bears tangentially on our VDP code. We would like to put our VDP code into this community of programmers who might find it interesting and add to it. This may help Inkscape and us too. Make sense? Let me know if you think we are off base.
Does Inkscape have a business logic subsystem that can drive graphic design and text and image replacement based on user defined business rules?
The reason we're interested in paying someone to work with us is simply to get the job done efficiently. We could paw around in the Inkscape code for weeks learning what it does and doesn't have, or we could work with someone who already knows. Just to show you how clueless I am, I've spent quite a bit of time getting the code to compile in Ubuntu, RedHat, and now I'm working on a WinXP. I'm still not able to get the darn thing to build in Eclipse CDT. I used to like Eclipse when I was working in Java, but now I can't decide if I'm the obtuse behemoth or it is.
BTW Inkscapers, nice work. The more I see, the more I like.
-- Mike
On 11/20/07, Michael Yinger <myinger@...1834...> wrote:
First, I apologize in advance if this is the wrong forum for this kind of question.
I've been getting up to speed on Inkscape and Scribus. I'd like to get up to speed much faster and would be happy to pay someone to help me do that. If you are interested please email me at myinger@...1835...
-- Mike Yinger
On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 12:16 -0700, Michael Yinger wrote:
I haven't gotten a single flame for my posting, but I've gotten curiosity about what we are doing with Inkscape, so I thought I'd say a little more.
Mike, thanks for giving us more information. I'm not sure if you got any responses on people interested in the contract work, but I will say that you're one of the first people I know who's asked. So we don't have a mature services network aligned with Inkscape.
We have proprietary C++ code for doing variable data printing. We aren't really interested in being variable data design experts and are moving in a direction that bears tangentially on our VDP code. We would like to put our VDP code into this community of programmers who might find it interesting and add to it. This may help Inkscape and us too. Make sense? Let me know if you think we are off base.
Does Inkscape have a business logic subsystem that can drive graphic design and text and image replacement based on user defined business rules?
Inkscape doesn't have that per se, but we do have things that are similar. An example of that would be the connectors and libavoid code. What it does is attach additional data onto the SVG shapes, and then process that with regards to the positions of other objects. I'm guessing that is some of what you're looking for.
We do some data driven documents using XSLT to make our tutorials. The reason for doing this is that translators can translate the text, which may end up being a different length than the original language, and still have the entire document flow correctly. You might look at some of that, to see what would be possible.
Also, you may look at attacking your problem from the SVG side. There are many people who are creating data driven SVG documents, some of them are then editing them in Inkscape or other tools. One example would be mapping:
http://www.carto.net/williams/yosemite/
There are a few consultants that are doing SVG work directly, I'm sure they'd be willing to work with you.
--Ted
Ted,
I did get some responses from people interested in a contract and I'll be working with at least one of them.
I'll be looking into the technologies/areas you suggested. That Yosemite map is enlightening.
Thanks.
-- Mike
On 11/25/07, Ted Gould <ted@...11...> wrote:
On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 12:16 -0700, Michael Yinger wrote:
I haven't gotten a single flame for my posting, but I've gotten curiosity about what we are doing with Inkscape, so I thought I'd say a little more.
Mike, thanks for giving us more information. I'm not sure if you got any responses on people interested in the contract work, but I will say that you're one of the first people I know who's asked. So we don't have a mature services network aligned with Inkscape.
We have proprietary C++ code for doing variable data printing. We aren't really interested in being variable data design experts and are moving in a direction that bears tangentially on our VDP code. We would like to put our VDP code into this community of programmers who might find it interesting and add to it. This may help Inkscape and us too. Make sense? Let me know if you think we are off base.
Does Inkscape have a business logic subsystem that can drive graphic design and text and image replacement based on user defined business rules?
Inkscape doesn't have that per se, but we do have things that are similar. An example of that would be the connectors and libavoid code. What it does is attach additional data onto the SVG shapes, and then process that with regards to the positions of other objects. I'm guessing that is some of what you're looking for.
We do some data driven documents using XSLT to make our tutorials. The reason for doing this is that translators can translate the text, which may end up being a different length than the original language, and still have the entire document flow correctly. You might look at some of that, to see what would be possible.
Also, you may look at attacking your problem from the SVG side. There are many people who are creating data driven SVG documents, some of them are then editing them in Inkscape or other tools. One example would be mapping:
http://www.carto.net/williams/yosemite/
There are a few consultants that are doing SVG work directly, I'm sure they'd be willing to work with you.
--Ted
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