Community support for creating PDF Export/Import feature
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A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to meet Brandon Sanders when he visited OSDL about a conference he's organizing. He's also a long time Inkscape user and fan.
Brandon's also involved in IBESI, an org that helps ordinary people create and run R&D projects. He's been looking for good guinea pigs. It struck me that this could be one way to meet our PDF export/import needs. It seems to fit Brandon's model very well. The community needs this feature badly, and users may be willing to fund development if there's a solid plan and concensus.
Anyway, to keep this email short, I'm going to gloss over a lot of details and just post the link:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PrintingConsensusPoll
PLEASE, if you are interested in Inkscape PDF, do this:
1. Go to the above page 2. Vote "NO" (since there's no proposal yet)
Once we get 20 people participating, we can move to the next step (see the page for details).
Bryce
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Wow, already we're half-way towards the first part of the contract - having 20 inkscape enthusiasts involved. If we can get 10 more people interested in PDF to participate, we'll meet the minimum to be able to start.
http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PrintingConsensusPoll
Also, it's clear we need a better plan, so please take a look at what's been written so far, and help scope out something better!
Bryce
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 11:05:01PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to meet Brandon Sanders when he visited OSDL about a conference he's organizing. He's also a long time Inkscape user and fan.
Brandon's also involved in IBESI, an org that helps ordinary people create and run R&D projects. He's been looking for good guinea pigs. It struck me that this could be one way to meet our PDF export/import needs. It seems to fit Brandon's model very well. The community needs this feature badly, and users may be willing to fund development if there's a solid plan and concensus.
Anyway, to keep this email short, I'm going to gloss over a lot of details and just post the link:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PrintingConsensusPoll
PLEASE, if you are interested in Inkscape PDF, do this:
- Go to the above page
- Vote "NO" (since there's no proposal yet)
Once we get 20 people participating, we can move to the next step (see the page for details).
Bryce
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Anyway, to keep this email short, I'm going to gloss over a lot of details and just post the link:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PrintingConsensusPoll
I'd like to suggest looking at Xpdf or ghostview as possible bases to build a pdftosvg tool with. They both come with command line tools to convert pdf files to other formats.
I wrote my own pdf/ai to svg converter not long ago by using Xpdf after having found that ipe (http://ipe.compgeom.org/) has such a pdftoipe tool. Within a day I was able to at least have basic strokes, fills and texts converted. For me it was easier to re-add patterns or shades from Inkscape than try to extend the converter further (mainly because i really don't know anything about svg. working with xpdf was extremely easy).
participants (2)
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Bryce Harrington
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Ulf Erikson