I am currently reviewing plug-ins with "real users". Some plug-ins apparently and annoyingly lack much needed functionality. For instance, the PolarCoord plug-in insists on rendering into the same image as source, with same dimensions. So, an obvious maneuver like render a ribbon of text (say 1400x300 pixels) then use the polar transform to make it circular does not work as expected, since it outputs a circle of diameter 300 pixels. It is not the only plug-in with that problem, MapObject also insists on rendering into an image of the same size. Either 1. I have not found the "right way" to have these plug-ins render images of the right size. It is then very much unlikely that normal users will find a way to do this. 2. The needed functionality is absent. I consider this to be a BUG that needs to be fixed before 1.2 is out. It is a bug because we feature some plug-ins that provide a functionality provided by decent painting programs, yet this functionality lacks some fundamental setting, contrary to the intuition of all users. What do you think? --- David Monniaux Fax: +33 1 44 32 20 80 Laboratoire d'informatique de l'École Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d'Ulm - 75230 PARIS cedex 5 - FRANCE
