[postgis-devel] Nice diagrams

[Paul Ramsey]

Plain images will be best for web-based docs. It would be nice to have
vector sources, so that paper docs could have appropriately high
quality versions. Does inkscape save to postscript? (This is why I was
always so scared of doing images in the docs before... so many
options! :)

P

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Obe, Regina <robe.dnd at cityofboston.gov> wrote:
> My IE7 just displays it as xml.  Firefox seems to load it fine.  Besides
> plain png is less likely to crash someone's browser.
>
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> [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Dane
> Springmeyer
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 3:29 PM
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> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] Nice diagrams
>
> Gustavo,
>
> Those graphics look good. It seems like it would be ideal to simple
> load the svg's within the HTML page rather than have to depend upon
> Inkscape (despite how much nicer they could look).
>
> Do you have a sense about 1) the easiest way to generate styled svg
> from postgis AsSvg(), and 2) if there are any limitations to consider
> when using linked svg files within the Docbook PDF output?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dane
>
>
> On Jul 18, 2008, at 5:56 AM, Gustavo Henrique Sberze Ribas wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> Does not SVG provide the required capabilities? I'm led to believe it
>>> can be exported directly by a large number of packages. As long as it
>>> supports vector objects with styles and object groups, it
>>> should work fine.
>>
>>  +1 for SVG. You don't even have to export it to a raster format, many
>> browsers have built-in SVG support (like Opera, Mozilla).
>>
>>  There's an open source SVG editor called Inkscape that's capable of
>> doing
>> drop shadow effects. I've attached a sample created with it for your
>> evaluation.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Gustavo
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On
>>> Behalf Of Mark Cave-Ayland
>>> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 5:50 AM
>>> To: PostGIS Development Discussion
>>> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] Nice diagrams
>>>
>>>
>>> Kevin Neufeld wrote:
>>>> Ah yes, that's a good point.  The images were taken using
>>> OpenJUMP's
>>>> screenshot feature and modified using PhotoShop.  I suppose
>>> I could save
>>>> the features as small shapefiles, jml, or gml, but it would
>>> be nice to
>>>> save the styling as well (which doesn't work yet in JUMP).
>>> (Personally,
>>>> I like the drop shadows, which obviously JUMP can't do as well).
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have any suggestions how we could standardize
>>> this?  Perhaps
>>>> a GIS editor I'm unware of that can perform nice rendering
>>> so all we
>>>> have to do is load a project file and take some screen shots.  Or,
>>>> alternatively, we just agree on a color theme, image size,
>>> etc. and save
>>>> the features as WKT in an images_src directory.  (Is there
>>> an opensource
>>>> picture editor out there that can do drop shadows?)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Kevin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ATB,
>>>
>>> Mark.
>>>
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