Simon Budig <simon@xxxxxxxx> schrieb am Di., 28. Mai 2019 13:24: > Hi all. > > Some of you will have noticed the Mail from Thomas Völker from the end > of last February. He was looking for some Developers for paid Gimp > development. > > [putting on my business head] > > I co-own and work for a small company doing embedded linux / customer > specific application development. > > After discussing this in the GIMP IRC channel I was ready to dip my toes > into the somewhat murky water of doing paid development for my hobby pet > project. So I went ahead and visited the company in question. It was a > nice and productive meeting with interesting questions and I'd like to > ask for your thoughts and input on the problems I'm about to explain. > I'll split up this mail, so that different problems can be discussed in > separate sub-threads. > > If you're interested in doing paid development work on some of these > problems please feel free to speak to me. > > If you're interested in the problems, have input on working with > printing in the textile industry please feel free to speak to me. > > I am currently in Saarbrücken and would welcome discussions about these > topics at LGM. > > > The Problem: > > The Company is based in Germany and is manufacturing carpets, printing > them with various customer specific designs. > > Due to changes in their software toolchain (product upgrades with very > unwelcome additional restrictions) they are looking for free > alternatives and one part of a new toolchain could be GIMP. > > During the two days of my (paid) visit there we tried to assess what > features they need and looked for ways to fit GIMP into their needs. > > I was very clear about that we need to be very careful about feature > additions and how they fit into our future roadmap. That having said I > really do believe that there are areas which would be useful for GIMP, > other things are maybe a bit more tricky to incorporate in a sane manner > into the GIMPs UI. > > As for the background: the company in question manufactures long > (dozends of meters) 4m wide runs of carpet, which then get printed on > with customer specific designs in three different production lines. One > of these lines uses a four color CMYK process, but the focus of this > project are the two other lines using machines to print 24 and 32 > individually mixed colors. > > Since rooms wider than 4m are not uncommon site specific carpets need to > get prepared in a way that multiple runs of carpet can be placed next to > each other and the pattern globally match perfectly. This is one of the > main concerns and I have the impression that the current tools in GIMP > are not that great to deal with this kind of design constraints. > Adressing these might expand our audience further into the realm of the > textile industry, but I also believe that it might be helpful for people > working with textures. To develop tools that make it more easy to work > with this kind of constraints is probably the most tricky and > questionable part of the project. > > Lets first look at the in my opinion quite simple and uncontroversial > things for the GIMP. > > The two printing lines in question print with 24 resp. 32 customer > specific colors. Each carpet project has its own color palette and while > there is a predefined set of color recipes readily available it is not > uncommon that specific projects get their own customer specific > colors. > > That is the basic situation. I'll send some follow up mails for the > following sub-topics: > > - Better handling of colors in indexed images > - Changes to the UI > - Working with patterns > - Working with indexed images > - Integration into a Document Management System > > Thanks! > Simon > > -- > simon@xxxxxxxx http://simon.budig.de/ > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx > List membership: > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list > _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
