[postgis-devel] Nice diagrams

[Dane Springmeyer]

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-----
>> 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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