On Friday 26 September 2003 7:19 am, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > "Joao S. O. Bueno" <gwidion@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Well, I have never enve looked at Pango. > > You will not get around it, see below. > > > My idea would be to get the text chars and attributtes from the > > GIMP, generate a image without the text only layers with no other > > layers above it, and "hand code" the PS code necessary to write a > > similar layer with the same font and coordinates. To embbed the > > font, I then would run GS with "pdfwrite" on a temporary PS. > > I don't think it will be acceptable to write a "similar" layer. The > PDF text layer will have to identical to what you see on screen. > Tiny differences might be acceptable but you definitely want to > apply the same font mapping, glyph substitution, line-breaking and > bidi algorithms as the text tool. That's why you won't get around > using Pango for the text layout. > > > If Pango thinks about providing the pdf layers itself, them I > > will probably check what it does, and does need improvement. > > I was talking about a third-party Pango extension. It's not part of > the standard Pango package. > > > There are 4 things on this list: > > 1) The Custom Layer Combination Mode > > This will record a plain ASCII parasite with a mathematical > > c-like expression on how to combine pixels from this layer with > > the one bellow. (And with themselves, like dissolve mode). > > If not for the flexibility, this mode will avoid cluttering > > the UI each time one finds a fine-tune to the "add mode", as is > > the Grain merge. > > I don't see how this would avoid UI cluttering. You don't expect > people who want to use an effect like Grain Merge to enter the > mathematical formula manually, do you? No, I think of having a bunch of pre-loaded formulas as gimp resources (Plain ASCII in a .gimp-2.2/layer_modes/ ). And them, if someone wants to fine tune any of them he will just type his values there. > > > 2) Improve the postscript export (and maybe import) filter: > > - Easy: save indexed images as indeed indexed. They are > > saved as full RGB currently > > - Save text layers as text > > - Save multiple layers as multiple pages, with some > > meta-information - Change import filter to erad multiple page > > into multiple layers as an option. Use meta-info from above for > > offsets, and combination modes. > > 3 and 4 would be just plugins. > > (2) would be plug-in only as well, no? Well yes...sorry, is that this one would come with the GIMP, the others might or not get in. > > > Sven JS -><-
