Re: [Gimp-developer] Print plugin

2007-07-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 18:34 -0600, D. Stimits wrote: So I pose this question...if print via PDF is to be considered, why remove the existing PS system, which is pretty much the best quality PostScript among all of the apps (commercial and free)? We are not removing anything. So far

Re: [Gimp-developer] Print plugin

2007-07-24 Thread Stefan Roellin
Hi, On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 07:35:17PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: If yes, a solution could be to not distinguish between a Postscript and a PDF target (i.e. to embed only opaque images into a PDF despite the fact that PDF can handle images with alpha values). Would this approach have

Re: [Gimp-developer] Print plugin

2007-07-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 16:47 +0200, Stefan Roellin wrote: I think the current implementation of the print plugin is fine, i.e. generate the PDF with opaque images. If someone needs to have a PDF with images with alpha values, it would be possible to write a 'save-as-pdf plugin' similar to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Print plugin

2007-07-24 Thread Stefan Roellin
Hi, On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 07:29:20PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: I think the current implementation of the print plugin is fine, i.e. generate the PDF with opaque images. If someone needs to have a PDF with images with alpha values, it would be possible to write a 'save-as-pdf plugin'

Re: [Gimp-developer] Print plugin

2007-07-24 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 7/25/07, Stefan Roellin wrote: Yes, this would of course also be possible and not too different from a GtkPrint approach. GtkPrint offers dialogs to choose the PageSize etc, which Cairo does not. Export to PDF has often been requested. It would be particularly interesting if it could

Re: [Gimp-developer] Print plugin

2007-07-24 Thread Simon Budig
Alexandre Prokoudine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: - Will it be possible since GIMP doesn't use Cairo yet? It does implicitely, since it already depends on a GTK+ version that depends on cairo. Bye, Simon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://simon.budig.de/

[Gimp-developer] Request for Change 0 Free Select Behavior

2007-07-24 Thread Stephen Kiel
Hi, I was referred to this forum for my request for a change in Gimp's behavior while using the Free Select tool. Ref Bugzilla Bug 456277. Performing selections on a complex shape is one of the most labor intensive and time consuming tasks in Gimp (probably in any other editor as well).