Hi, On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 22:22 +0530, sumith pandilwar wrote: > by adding support for svg files i would like to add the feature to > import svg file and modify its properties like colour, fade out etc > and use it like a brush.This would be like totally creating a new > brush of our own OK, let's have a look at using SVG for brushes in GIMP. With the current state of brush transformations in trunk, we are nicely prepared for vector brushes. Brush transformations currently are affine transformations and as such they can easily be applied on an SVG. So all that is needed is to create a new brush type GimpBrushVector similar to GimpBrushGenerated. This vector brush would load its data from an SVG file. If we accept linking the core against librsvg we can easily import any SVG file and render it using rsvg_handle_render_cairo(). Being able to render the brush to a Cairo surface is an extra plus as that will allow the paint tools to render a nice brush preview on the canvas as soon as we finally port tool drawing to Cairo. It's not clear though how exactly an SVG file that represents a brush should be interpreted. What I described above basically means we just treat it as a scalable image. Basically all SVG images could be used as brushes then and would behave like pixmap brushes except that they would look better when transformed. Probably not exactly what we want. We also need the notion of grayscale vector brushes that define a brush mask that is colored by the foreground color. We also need meta information such as the brush name and the default brush spacing. It's not entirely clear to me how such an SVG brush should look like. Do we expect GIMP-specific XML elements in the SVG ? In order to come to a conclusion whether GIMP should have support for SVG brushes and if that would be a good project for GSoC we need a clearer vision of what an SVG brush is. Perhaps someone else here wants to share his ideas? Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
