[postgis-devel] documentation images

[Paragon Corporation]

Kevin,

This sounds great.  So I guess I can go back later and test with the wkt we
spit out in the examples. 

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[mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Kevin
Neufeld
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 7:55 PM
To: PostGIS Development Discussion
Subject: [postgis-devel] documentation images

Hi all,

I just committed some code that can generate most of the spatial images used
in the documentation.

Before, the image_src directory contained some svg files that were
"supposed" to be the source of the png images used in the docs.  But I know
of no way to import svg into PostGIS, I can't import them into JUMP to test
or regenerate the svg ... they're pretty useless.

So, I wrote a small program that will parse WKT files in the same directory
using the liblwgeom module.  Then, using ImageMagick, automatically generate
the png files of interest.  The advantage here, is that all the images have
the same style (fill color, line thinkness, drop shadow, etc) and can be
changed just by modifying a few variables.  Because the files are simple
WKT, it's easy to modify the images or generate new ones.

It's written in C, and my C skills are still on the upward learning curve :)
Can someone who is proficient at C review the work before I start removing
images and from SVN and relying on the app for the generation of the
documentation? 
Since the code is currently isolated, I thought it'd be OK to submit the
stuff rather have a wack of .patch files for someone to review.

Cheers,
Kevin
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