I do like the idea of multiple vendors, but I remain agnostic (and sometimes a bit leery) of Open Source. I'll use it if it works and it is properly documented. I won't use it when it doesn't work and/or is poorly documented. I would rather pay $500 for SQL Server and its easy-to-use interfaces than try to figure out how to use PostgresSQL for free. Most of the time, my clients/employers are paying anyway, so I don't care if it is Open Sourced or not. I just want it to work and to be reasonably popular, so that any skills learned are transferable when the job is done.
SVG is very easy to use. The documentation could be way better though, but I do really, really appreciate the work of so many people here and on other sites that have provided some very good examples on how to do things. I have a rather nice way to do text wrapping, that I will post up here tomorrow and make my own contribution. I couldn't make heads or tails of other implementations I saw elsewhere. They were obsessively object oriented in my opinion. Mine uses some objects, but in a much simpler way. They were under the viral GNU license, which my client wouldn't like. So my code will be shared completely openly, not under any license at all. My code also attempts to do the text fitting efficiently, detecting the average character length and making a good first guess on the text size. As a result, on text with about 150 lines per graphic, only 34 attempts were too long, and about 5 too short for the whole page. I suspect that about half of the redos were repeats on the same line (perhaps with lots of m's or uppercase), so about 85% of the first tries were spot on. I'd share it right now, but it I'm not at work right now. Geoffrey J. Swenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francis Hemsher Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 7:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [svg-developers] Developers Strike for Open Source! - was(Is Adobe abandoning SVG?) I think at, this time, open-source can rule the future. It seems to me that developers have invested millions upon millions of frustrating hours in attempting to make their stuff work in many bizarre envrionments. Let's take some time, and quit this silliness, and go on strike. A simple statement can be made by developers that they only work on open-source projects; just a strike for only for 90 days, please...you won't loose your house or wife under this short term:) But, you will most assuredly get the attention of both media and big guys. The time is pregnant for this opportunity. Fancis ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- _____ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS * Visit your group "svg-developers <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers> " on the web. * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> Service. _____ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/2jUsvC/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/1U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
