Am 02.02.2011 04:25, schrieb Henrik: > Hi all, > > Inspired by discussions in this thread I trialled both ditaa and > aafigure. > > Graphics with ditaa look nice and modern, it supports colour and drop- > shadows as well as different shapes. Biggest drawback is the missing > vector graphic output like SVGs. There is an EPS add-on but FOP > unfortunately does not support EPS for PDF output. So we are stuck > with PNG only which is less ideal for PDF output. > > Aafigure however supports SVG output so I wrote a filter for AsciiDoc > but got stuck with aafigure's inability to load fonts in a robust an > OS independent way and also the type of SVG it creates. There is a > work around for the font issue but the SVGs it generates are kind of > unusable by FOP as they do not contain width and height information. > > Without such information the viewport cannot be calculated > automatically and the user has to provide viewport height and width as > well as content height and width, and this is kind of guesswork and > images will appear clipped or distorted. > > If one is happy with PNG output both solutions can be used and I > should publish these filters shortly.
This would be very nice, if you do so! > > Henrik > > On Dec 28 2010, 3:51 pm, Wilhelm <[email protected]> wrote: >> Am 27.12.2010 18:52, schrieb Gary F.: >> >>> Re: ditaa and ascii art -> graphics. I installed and tried ditaa. >>> Ditaa is >>> written in java, and has almost no documentation. Its help line is >>> pretty >>> much all you get. A quick search for something in Python that might >>> be more >>> asciidoc friendly turned this up: >>> http://packages.python.org/aafigure/manual.html >> >>> The author has provided several plug-ins. Perhaps he can be coaxed >>> into >>> providing asciidoc support? >> >> aafigurelooks also very promising to create usefull diagrams. >> >> Since I'm very new to asciidoc, I don't know exactly how to integrate >> that into asciidoc. But I think aafilter or ditaa can be integrated >> using the same approch as the graphiz-filter. >> >> -- >> Wilhelm > -- Wilhelm -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en.
