Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-30 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
2008/12/30 Mirai Warren wrote:

> Isn't the GIMP supposed to editing photos and creating original works with 
> pixel-based formats?  It
> still lacks functionality or ease of use with those tasks, so why should 
> paths and SVG need
> support past what it has now?

Artificial limitation for creative process tends to bite back badly

Alexandre
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Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-30 Thread Mirai Warren
> All I can do is to modify the path and to draw it as a bitmap graphic.

Isn't the GIMP supposed to editing photos and creating original works with 
pixel-based formats?  It 
still lacks functionality or ease of use with those tasks, so why should paths 
and SVG need
support past what it has now?  If you need to work with paths and non-SVG 
graphics at the same time,
then tighter integration with Inkscape or some other vector creation programme 
is what you should push for.

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Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-29 Thread Henk Boom
2008/12/29 Martin Nordholts :
> Iljoa wrote:
>> In GIMP I cannot define a fill color, stroke color, type and width. I
>> hava a naked bezier curve without any additional information.
>>
>
> It is worth mentioning that GIMP 2.8 is planned to have basic vector
> layers which supports exactly that. The enhancement request to track is:
>
> Bug 557970 – Merge vector layers GSoC Project
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557970

Wow, I had no idea there was progress on this front! It makes me very
happy that my code won't go to waste. =)

Henk
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Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-29 Thread Martin Nordholts
Iljoa wrote:
> In GIMP I cannot define a fill color, stroke color, type and width. I
> hava a naked bezier curve without any additional information.
>   

It is worth mentioning that GIMP 2.8 is planned to have basic vector
layers which supports exactly that. The enhancement request to track is:

Bug 557970 – Merge vector layers GSoC Project
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557970

- Martin

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Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-29 Thread Iljoa
> What do you mean, a trackle of the SVG format? Can you be more specific
> about this, please?
> Sven

I meant a trickle (sorry for the typo) and to be more specific:
In GIMP I cannot define a fill color, stroke color, type and width. I
hava a naked bezier curve without any additional information.

All I can do is to modify the path and to draw it as a bitmap graphic.

> It already works with Inkscape from SVN trunk. You just copy a path in
> Inkscape to clipboard and Ctrl+V it in GIMP's image window.

Great, I am looking forward to the next Inkscape release.
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Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi,

On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 17:28 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

> It already works with Inkscape from SVN trunk. You just copy a path in
> Inkscape to clipboard and Ctrl+V it in GIMP's image window.

Seems somewhat hard to discover that you can get a path from GIMP into
Inkscape using DnD and need to use the clipboard to get it back. Ideally
it should be possible to exchange paths in both directions using either
DnD or the clipboard.


Sven


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Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-29 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
2008/12/29 Sven Neumann wrote:

> exchange paths between GIMP and Inkscape. So the best thing we can do at
> this point is to ask the Inkscape developers to add a way to get a path
> back into GIMP easily.

It already works with Inkscape from SVN trunk. You just copy a path in
Inkscape to clipboard and Ctrl+V it in GIMP's image window.

Alexandre
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Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi,

On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 12:40 +0100, gg wrote:

> SVG is not just a ... but a full blown xml spec that
> includes javascript and DOM. How much of that is handled by GIMP?
> 
> I'm also unaware of the word trackle but I think the meaning is clear.

Sorry, but the sentence in question was "The paths in GIMP seem to
support only a trackle of the svg format.". So we are not discussing
full support of SVG here, but only paths in SVG files. And as far as I
can see GIMP supports all features of SVG paths. SVG paths don't cover
all aspects of GIMP paths though, but they can be used as a reasonable
approximation.


Sven


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Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-29 Thread gg
Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 10:00 +0100, Iljoa wrote:
> 
>>> It would be nice to have but getting this feature to work good requires
>>> quite a bit of work both on GIMP and Inkscape.
>> How much work exactly?
> 
> The point is that given the amount of active developers on GIMP we have
> enough feature proposals to work on for the next two decades. And each
> of those features appears more important than adding yet another way to
> exchange paths between GIMP and Inkscape. So the best thing we can do at
> this point is to ask the Inkscape developers to add a way to get a path
> back into GIMP easily.
> 
>> But I see also a problem: The paths in GIMP seem to support only a
>> trackle of the svg format.
> 
> What do you mean, a trackle of the SVG format? Can you be more specific
> about this, please?
> 
> 
> Sven
> 

SVG is not just a ... but a full blown xml spec that
includes javascript and DOM. How much of that is handled by GIMP?

I'm also unaware of the word trackle but I think the meaning is clear.

/gg

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Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi,

On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 10:00 +0100, Iljoa wrote:

> > It would be nice to have but getting this feature to work good requires
> > quite a bit of work both on GIMP and Inkscape.
> 
> How much work exactly?

The point is that given the amount of active developers on GIMP we have
enough feature proposals to work on for the next two decades. And each
of those features appears more important than adding yet another way to
exchange paths between GIMP and Inkscape. So the best thing we can do at
this point is to ask the Inkscape developers to add a way to get a path
back into GIMP easily.

> But I see also a problem: The paths in GIMP seem to support only a
> trackle of the svg format.

What do you mean, a trackle of the SVG format? Can you be more specific
about this, please?


Sven


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Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-28 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi,

On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 08:58 +0100, Iljoa wrote:

> There should be the option to edit path layers in an external program.

You are aware that you can drag a path from the GIMP Paths dialog into
Inkscape and edit it there? Unfortunately I can't tell you how you can
easily get that path back into GIMP. But if I remember correctly, you
should be able to drop an SVG path on GIMP. So if Inkscape provided a
way to drag out the path, you'd be all set.


Sven


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Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-28 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
2008/12/28 Martin Nordholts wrote:

> It would be nice to have but getting this feature to work good requires
> quite a bit of work both on GIMP and Inkscape.

Besides native path editing in gegl's test tool is getting really
interesting, and once it's inside GIMP, one would probably not wish
going to edit paths elsewhere :)

Alexandre
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Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-28 Thread Martin Nordholts
Iljoa wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to propose a feature request; I did this already in Bug 565776;
> there I was told this should be discussed here, and here I am:
> There should be the option to edit path layers in an external program.

Hi

It would be nice to have but getting this feature to work good requires
quite a bit of work both on GIMP and Inkscape.

- Martin
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[Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-27 Thread Iljoa
Hi,
I want to propose a feature request; I did this already in Bug 565776;
there I was told this should be discussed here, and here I am:
There should be the option to edit path layers in an external program.
It could work this way:
Right click on a path, choose "edit with external program", open it with the
default editor for svg-files. In my case this would be Inkscape.
In Inkscape there should not only be the path, but also all the other layers as
a bitmap in the background, so I can see, how the path interacts with
the rest of the image. If I
save in Inkscape, the path is refreshed in GIMP automatically, the
bitmap background is dropped.
It could of course also work in another way.
Greetings
Das Auge
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