Hi Inkscape developers. I'd like to see if there is anyone interested in working on a JavaFX plugin for Inkscape.
Please let me introduce myself. I'm Josh Marinacci from the JavaFX engineering team at Sun. JavaFX is our new platform for graphic intensive applications that runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux (as well as phones and TVs in the future). Recently there have been threads on a few mailing lists asking for JavaFX support in Inkscape so I thought I'd see if there was anyone in the developer community interested in creating such a plugin. Let me explain what this means.
Today we have something called the JavaFX Production Suite, which is a set of plugins for Photoshop and Illustrator. They let you export graphics from those tools and then integrate them in an app you are building, adding animation and event handlers directly to the graphics. I put together a screencast to show you how it works in Photoshop:
We simply don't have the developer resources to create plugins for tools other than Photoshop and Illustrator, but we also don't want to leave open source and Linux designers out of the loop. We'd love to help some in the Inkscape community build such a plugin. We can provide technical support and specs, and answer questions. I think it would be pretty easy for an experienced Inkscape developer to build such an export plugin. The underlying .FXZ format is basically a zip file containing images and some text metadata similar to XML. It should be pretty easy to generate.
It's my understanding that there was a previous effort to create an Inkscape plugin (Silviera Neto was working on it, I think). Is this plugin still under development? If so we'd love to provide any assistance possible.
Please let me know if there's any interest. Thanks!
Josh
On Jul 1, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Joshua Marinacci wrote:
Hi Inkscape developers. I'd like to see if there is anyone interested in working on a JavaFX plugin for Inkscape.
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It's my understanding that there was a previous effort to create an Inkscape plugin (Silviera Neto was working on it, I think). Is this plugin still under development? If so we'd love to provide any assistance possible.
Please let me know if there's any interest. Thanks!
Hi Josh.
Yes, there is interest. In fact, I recently fixed some base issues to get our exporter going with the latest JavaFX. That was done in fair bit due to end user contact... that is, people who wanted to be using it asked about getting things fixed and gave some feedback, testing, etc.
Some user used Twitter to point out this blog post: http://lucasjordan.blogspot.com/2009/06/inkscape-and-javafx-almost- there.html
The corresponding initial fixes were under bug # 253869 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/253869
Using the test case from that blog post, I also figured out what the problem with the gradients are. If someone can enter specific bugs for those then I can probably get them fixed for 0.47.
And in regards to .FXZ export itself there is definite interest. I think as a packaged-up container format there are some nice things that can be leveraged post 0.47. Among other things we've been wanting to add in an internal "media manager" to handle external files (bitmap images, ICC profiles, style sheets, etc). Including conceptual needs and such for .FXZ will probably help with the general solution also.
(BTW, I noticed Martin Brehovsky commented on that bug after it was fixed)
Hi Josh.
Yes, there is interest. In fact, I recently fixed some base issues to get our exporter going with the latest JavaFX. That was done in fair bit due to end user contact... that is, people who wanted to be using it asked about getting things fixed and gave some feedback, testing, etc.
Excellent!
Some user used Twitter to point out this blog post: http://lucasjordan.blogspot.com/2009/06/inkscape-and-javafx-almost-there.htm...
The corresponding initial fixes were under bug # 253869 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/253869
Using the test case from that blog post, I also figured out what the problem with the gradients are. If someone can enter specific bugs for those then I can probably get them fixed for 0.47.
And in regards to .FXZ export itself there is definite interest. I think as a packaged-up container format there are some nice things that can be leveraged post 0.47. Among other things we've been wanting to add in an internal "media manager" to handle external files (bitmap images, ICC profiles, style sheets, etc). Including conceptual needs and such for .FXZ will probably help with the general solution also.
(BTW, I noticed Martin Brehovsky commented on that bug after it was fixed)
Yes. Martin would be one of those aforementioned overworked engineers. :)
So it definitely sounds like there is interest. How can I help you?
- J
On 7/1/2009 10:55 PM, Joshua Marinacci wrote:
So it definitely sounds like there is interest. How can I help you?
Joshua,
The export is implemented in a single c++ file, here in the source tree:
http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/src/exten...
rev. 21610 is the current one as I write this.
If you look at it, it is pretty clear how the mapping from svg->javafx scene stuff is being handled.
Thanks for looking into this! ^^
bob (ishmal)
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