[postgis-devel] Nice diagrams

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

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

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.


ATB,

Mark.

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