I published it now on Google Code. Here are the links:

http://code.google.com/p/asciidoc-aafigure-filter/

and

http://code.google.com/p/asciidoc-ditaa-filter/

Cheers

Henrik

On Feb 7, 11:54 am, Stuart Rackham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/02/11 14:36, Henrik wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > I finalized the implementation of a ditaa and aafigure filter and they
> > are ready to be published.
>
> > The challenging question is where to upload and host them so they can
> > be easily found and maintained. Unfortunately Google discontinued the
> > feature of uploading files to Google Groups.
>
> > Ideas and suggestions are welcome.
>
> You could host it as as a project on Google Code/Github/Sourceforge etc. That
> way you also get the source hosted in a public repository.
>
> Cheers, Stuart
>
>
>
> > Henrik
>
> > On Feb 2, 4:15 pm, Wilhelm<[email protected]>  wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> >>> Aafigurehowever supports SVG output so I wrote a filter for AsciiDoc
> >>> but got stuck withaafigure'sinability 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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