Re: [Gimp-user] Native Support for SVG

2009-12-17 Thread Cédric Gémy
It seems that my message has been sent several time. I don't know where it comes from, please apologize for this. actual i don't have any idea of how vector layers have been implemented to Gimp. I guess the most important thing is not that vector property of the layer. IMO, having vector masks

Re: [Gimp-user] Native Support for SVG

2009-12-08 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 12/8/09, David Gowers wrote: Why should GIMP support SVG export? Because jumping from one (bitmap) application to another (vector) and back is fairly normal? While I agree with you that Inkscape is a superior authoring tool for vector graphics, there is no reason why GIMP shouldn't have SVG

Re: [Gimp-user] Native Support for SVG

2009-12-08 Thread Torsten Neuer
Am Dienstag, 8. Dezember 2009 04:54:20 schrieb Programmer In Training: SVG is a vector format, not a raster format; GIMP is a raster image editor. Why should GIMP support SVG export? At least, there seems no advantage in using GIMP over using Inkscape to make SVGs, and many disadvantages.

Re: [Gimp-user] Native Support for SVG

2009-12-08 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Torsten Neuer wrote: The only way to fully support SVG in Gimp would be to implement SVG graphics internally, so SVG export could be just native SVG without raster image conversion. However, in this case, the Gimp image format would need to include special

Re: [Gimp-user] Native Support for SVG

2009-12-08 Thread Programmer In Training
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On 12/8/09, David Gowers wrote: Why should GIMP support SVG export? Because jumping from one (bitmap) application to another (vector) and back is fairly normal? While I agree with you that Inkscape is a superior authoring tool for vector graphics, there is no

Re: [Gimp-user] Native Support for SVG

2009-12-08 Thread Cédric Gémy
There is no non-sense that Inkscape supports some bitmap operations and also no nonsense that a bitmap applications support some vector possibilities simply because in many project, you simply need to mix vector and bitmap datas. a logo on a photo for example : and if the logo can be kept vector

Re: [Gimp-user] Native Support for SVG

2009-12-08 Thread David Gowers
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Cédric Gémy radar.ma...@free.fr wrote: There is no non-sense that Inkscape supports some bitmap operations and also no nonsense that a bitmap applications support some vector possibilities simply because in many project, you simply need to mix vector and bitmap

Re: [Gimp-user] Native Support for SVG

2009-12-08 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 12/9/09, David Gowers wrote: Not exactly. Paths have been available for a long time; however vector layers were implemented by Henk Boom a year or so ago Three years ago. It was a GSoC2006 project. Alexandre ___ Gimp-user mailing list

Re: [Gimp-user] Native Support for SVG

2009-12-07 Thread Programmer In Training
David Gowers wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us mailto:p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: I was looking at the changelog for 2.7 and I still don't see GIMP moving any closer to supporting SVG (which is quickly becoming