Thanks for the compliments, everyone. I will check out the vector package and further test SVG examples are welcome. If I have isolated concepts as well as I hope I have, re-writing the Scanner to use the vector package might not be too hard. Gradients are also near the top of the to-do list, because they are just so darn pretty.
As for the license part of it...(snnzz......, huh, what?) Oh yes, the rasterx package has parts that are straight copies, and parts that are somewhat modified from the freetype raster package, as well as parts that are completely new. So, I think I need to stay within the terms of the freetype license for that bit. Apparently, freetype wants derivatives to use their license, or GPL 2.0 or higher, so I just selected the highest GPL open on github, and also kept around a copy of their terms. On the other hand oksvg is completely *de novo*, so I can slap whatever license I want on that package. I take it people here prefer the Go license? Can anyone briefly describe the difference? I will definitely change it if someone can give me a good reason. I just want to make it as convenient and useful as possible for everyone. On Monday, April 23, 2018 at 3:42:55 PM UTC-7, Nigel Tao wrote: > > Nice! > > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 3:41 AM, Steven Wiley <steven...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I refactored and enhanced the raster package from the golang >> translation of freetype, <https://github.com/golang/freetype> >> > > It'd be a bunch of work, but you might consider basing off of > golang.org/x/image/vector instead: > > 1. Its technique is based on "Inside the fastest font renderer in the > world" at > https://medium.com/@raphlinus/inside-the-fastest-font-renderer-in-the-world-75ae5270c445 > > although rasterizing SVG images might perform differently than rasterizing > font glyphs. Both are vector graphics, but SVG images often have multiple, > overlapping shapes while font glyphs are typically simpler. > > There's also > https://github.com/golang/exp/blob/master/shiny/iconvg/internal/gradient/gradient.go. > > It's currently pretty slow, as I wanted to get the API right before > optimizing the implementation, then haven't really had the free time to > work on it since. But you might find it (and IconVG in general) interesting. > > 2. Its license is the Go license (i.e. BSD-like, > https://github.com/golang/image/blob/master/LICENSE), not the > Freetype-or-GPL2+ license ( > https://github.com/golang/freetype/blob/master/LICENSE). OTOH, if you > really want GPL3, then perhaps golang/freetype is a better foundation. > Disclaimer: I am not a laywer, this is not legal advice, etc. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
