[postgis-devel] Nice diagrams

[Kevin Neufeld]

Sure, sounds good to me too.  I think it's important to have similar 
styles throughout all the example images.  This would be a good way to 
accomplish that.

So, would we then have a section in the Makefile that would convert all 
the svg image files to png and eps files?  I can see this growing quite 
large if we need to add different custom parameters to ImageMagick's 
convert utility for different images or files types.

Cheers,
Kevin

Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> Obe, Regina wrote:
> 
>>>   So, the proposal is to store the basic drawing in a SVG file
>>> and them use image magick to add effects and create EPS and PNG for
>> PDF
>>> and web respectively ?
>>
>> That was my thought - store in some vector format so all sorts of
>> resolutions can be accommodated and not worry about shadowing and all
>> that stuff in the core output format.  Use ImageMagick to do the fancy
>> fluffy stuff.
> 
> Sounds good to me.
> 
>> It may or may not be desirable to have shadowing in say PDF.  SVG seems
>> like the easiest candidate to produce that core format and as you said
>> numerouse editors can output that.
>>
>> As far as how we produce SVG hadn't thought much about it and not sure
>> it matters if we use InkScape or whatever.  OpenJump can Save As SVG,
>> and for me personally that would be my choice since I use it a lot for
>> ad hoc queries anyway.  I like that I can run my demo query, save as SVG
>> and be done with it.
>>
>> For certain cases the raw PostGIS output even using a template would be
>> a hassle when we need to overlay to show different colors, points etc.
>> and so forth since it would almost guarantee manual fiddling.
> 
> Yeah, I suspect that automatically generating the results from a 
> shapefile will still require extra fiddling, although it could be a good 
> starting point. My feeling is that it is more likely to be the styling 
> of the images that will change rather than the contents, and it's 
> probably just as easy to make the content changes using a program such 
> as Inkscape.
> 
> 
> ATB,
> 
> Mark.
>