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

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