Hi, On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 21:36 +0200, LightningIsMyName wrote: > I believe that we should have the option to export multi-paged PDFs, > since we have the option to import them, and to me it makes sense that > we should be able to export what we can import. The whole point of calling it "Import" is to make clear that you can't save this again. > Gimp may not be a > page-layout program, yet doing multi-paged PDFs isn't too hard, and > won't hurt anyone... Of course it would hurt. It binds development resources for creating and maintaining it. If a feature does not fit with our product vision, then we are not going to include it. Doing multi-page PDF export simply because we can do it is not going to happen. What we need here is a user story. Without that, it doesn't make sense to discuss PDF export at all. > And about what you said on page layout tools, there is some sense in > what you said. Therfore, I think it would be indeed simpler to ignore > paths untill gimp has vector layers, since these aren't the main point > of the PDF plugin. The only feature I believe that is necessary, is to > draw single-colored rectangles as drawing and not as bitmap-images > (Imagine a background layer for a large scale image - a bitmap image > can be a big waist of memory). I don't understand why that is needed. What is our goal here? To create PDF files as small as possible? IMO the goal for PDF export should be to improve support for professional printing. File size is not important for that. Paths are also not important for that. If people need vector art, then they should use a vector editor. What matters is color profiles, CMYK color separation in the export process, support for spot colors, crop marks, ... As I said already, we can't discuss the details unless we know what the goals are. So we need to have one or more user stories for PDF export first. And we need to check these against our product vision to see if they are worth supporting. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
