[postgis-devel] Nice diagrams

[Gustavo Henrique Sberze Ribas]

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-----
> From: postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net 
> [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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