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vector graphics help
piratePenguin:
With Writely and Google spreadsheet, maybe a web-based SVG editor would be nice...
See http://piratepenguin.is-a-geek.com/~declan/svg/persistent-draw/ (I somehow managed to break it recently so it produces errors in FF and doesn't work perfectly (the colour picker) and doesn't work atall in Opera, will fix it when I get time) Performance in that isn't as bad as I expected, but it's very slow compared to Inkscape, so a web-based SVG editor mightn't be practical.
H_TeXMeX_H:
Google spreadsheet ... neat :D
Looks like Writely is gonna be part of google soon
--- Quote --- We have closed off new registrations until we move Writely to Google's systems.
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piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H ---Google spreadsheet ... neat :D
Looks like Writely is gonna be part of google soon
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Yea, google bought it out. Eventually they might have presentation applications (powerpoint) etc. Maybe they have a vector drawing program up their sleeves (but I doubt it highly).
worker201:
--- Quote from: Pathos ---...any links to licensing information ? I can't find anything on postscript. Is it additional features like font support ?
If there are restrictive licenses then its probably impossible to release it open source or for free.
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Strangely enough, the licensing info is extremely difficult to find. Like not available on the web, as far as I can tell. If you look at the Ghostscript documentation, they make it sound like they just copied everything from the PostScript Red Book. I own this book, so I'm going to look around for licensing info tonight. You can download the whole book in PDF from here if you want to browse it yourself:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/ps/index_specs.html
--- Quote from: Pathos --- What kind of programming background do you have ? (not trying to be insulting ... just this is a big and incredibly difficult project)
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Haha, I have almost no programming experience whatsoever. I actually handwrote the PostScript code for a simple business card once, and I can write simple for/while/if-else loops in C and C++. Basically, I am not a programmer at all. But dammit, this needs to be done! And somebody's got to do it. I'm quite certain I'll never finish, even if I get started. Such is the way of things. I'd probably do a much better job deciding what needs to go in and what isn't needed. However, lesser men have accomplished greater things with fewer resources. It could happen.
piratePenguin:
How about downloading the inkscape code, understanding it, and writing the bits you want added? Then submit them, if they get rejected then fuck the inkscape developers, maintain a patch so other people can use it, or fork it.
--- Quote from: worker ---I want a program that can take PS and EPS and PDF and SVG and whatever other filetypes and open them and manipulate them with ease and finesse. If that means the program won't be covered by the GPL, then that's okay. It would be nice to be full-on GNU, but I'm not willing to sacrifice functionality for it.
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I don't think it's to do with the actual GPL, more the developer's opinions on PS/etc. If they're strongly (or even not so strongly) against not-completely-open* standards, then alot of them will be be pro-free-software, so they can chose the BSD license, the GNU GPL etc, and if alot of them are pro-free-software-staying free, they'll go with the GPL - which is what they did. Noone's motivated to add support for the not-completely-open standard - nothing to do with the license, but the developer's opinions.
*I don't know the details of the PS/etc licenses.
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