On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:36 +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:
Hi all,
Hope it's OK to post here :)
Actually, the announce list is only for announcing Inkscape releases, so ppl. will probably get annoyed if other things get announced here. It is better to post to Inkscape-devel list.
Just wanted to let you all know that I've released a little python-based tool for Inkscape that slices up files for use as web graphics. It doesn't yet generate (useful) HTML for you, but it's already quite flexible.
It has two different engines, so it can slice simple stuff based on ruler guidelines you quickly drag across an image, or if you need something more complex, you can create a special "slices" layer, with rectangles showing where each slice should be. Be sure to hide the slices layer before actually slicing, since the rectangles will be rendered in your slices otherwise*.
Cool....
There is some future potential too: it could conceivably do much of what integrated slicers do (set file format for each slice etc.), thanks to the low-level XML access that Inkscape allows.
Available at: http://www.digitalunleashed.com/giving.php
Hopefully some of you will find this useful. Personally, I hate working with bitmap programs for web design :)
Yes, I agree. I *highly* recommend you work with Aaron Spike and Ted Gould to make this into an extension. This would be very useful to people to make websites. I know I would use it. Plus, that way your tool would get more exposure and could possibly be included with our releases...your software is GPL, so things should be in order.
- It'd be great if there was some way to disable particular layers when
calling inkscape from the shell for rendering.
Doable, but maybe mental or Bulia could respond to this better.
I've replied to you and to the inkscape-devel list where these discussions normally take place.
Cool idea to implement this...someone else on this list talked about doing this earlier, so maybe there are others that could help you out.
Jon
Jon Phillips wrote:
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:36 +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:
Just wanted to let you all know that I've released a little python-based tool for Inkscape that slices up files for use as web graphics. It doesn't yet generate (useful) HTML for you, but it's already quite flexible.
It has two different engines, so it can slice simple stuff based on ruler guidelines you quickly drag across an image, or if you need something more complex, you can create a special "slices" layer, with rectangles showing where each slice should be. Be sure to hide the slices layer before actually slicing, since the rectangles will be rendered in your slices otherwise*.
Cool....
There is some future potential too: it could conceivably do much of what integrated slicers do (set file format for each slice etc.), thanks to the low-level XML access that Inkscape allows.
Available at: http://www.digitalunleashed.com/giving.php
Hopefully some of you will find this useful. Personally, I hate working with bitmap programs for web design :)
Yes, I agree. I *highly* recommend you work with Aaron Spike and Ted Gould to make this into an extension. This would be very useful to people to make websites. I know I would use it. Plus, that way your tool would get more exposure and could possibly be included with our releases...your software is GPL, so things should be in order.
This is great. I really wanted a slicer with just these features. I will be sure to take a look.
Aaron Spike
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 12:45:54PM -0700, Jon Phillips wrote:
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:36 +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:
Hi all,
Hope it's OK to post here :)
Actually, the announce list is only for announcing Inkscape releases, so ppl. will probably get annoyed if other things get announced here. It is better to post to Inkscape-devel list.
Since I moderate the announce list, I reviewed it when it came in and made a judgement call that since it was about a release of a standalone, GPL'd tool that augments Inkscape, that it would be ok for it to be posted.
I figure, we want to encourage 3rd party tools to be used with Inkscape, so I think allowing them take advantage of our announce list makes sense.
Agreed that discussion should occur on inkscape-devel.
Yes, I agree. I *highly* recommend you work with Aaron Spike and Ted Gould to make this into an extension. This would be very useful to people to make websites. I know I would use it. Plus, that way your tool would get more exposure and could possibly be included with our releases...your software is GPL, so things should be in order.
Agreed, this would make a *great* extension. :-)
- It'd be great if there was some way to disable particular layers when
calling inkscape from the shell for rendering.
Doable, but maybe mental or Bulia could respond to this better.
I think ScislaC also needed this behavior for making "Gaze" since it was so complex.
Bryce
On Wednesday 13 Apr 2005 20:45, Jon Phillips wrote:
Yes, I agree. I *highly* recommend you work with Aaron Spike and Ted Gould to make this into an extension. This would be very useful to people to make websites. I know I would use it. Plus, that way your tool would get more exposure and could possibly be included with our releases...your software is GPL, so things should be in order.
Thanks for the encouragement :) I tried to find some python scripting info for Inkscape when starting this, but I guess I didn't look hard enough. Extensions seem pretty easy to implement, so I'll get started on at least a basic extension soon :)
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