[Gridflow-dev] [PD] pd2png : screenshots of patchs

[s p]

T'es pas facile toi ...

> I had to use KML, SHP and OSM formats last year. How special are they ?

Very bad example! They are all for geospatial data. So they are absolutely
not general purpose image formats.


> What's the use of embedding patch info inside of SVG ? Who will make use
of that info as embedded in SVG files ? Why ?

As I said, you can do stuff such as automatic layout (which is great), you
can do styling, you can do proper scaling, all of which would not be
possible with something that doesn't embed the structure of the patch.
For me, most importantly, you can build a whole new GUI for Pd on top of
SVG. For example, I made a quick prototype of that here :
http://sebpiq.github.io/WebPd/simple-gui/simple-gui.html


> Yes. It's called « making a screenshot ».

Yes, but what's the point? When you want to make a screenshot, in the end
you want a picture of the patch. So if you can get it otherwise, why would
you care that it's pixel perfect?


2013/5/21 Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>

> Le 2013-05-20 à 17:49:00, s p a écrit :
>
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>  I think you didn't really understand what I meant. SVG is XML, and XML
>> represents a datastructure. So in its very structure, it embeds the
>> information that is contained in a patch.
>>
>
> Non, c'est toi qui as pas compris.
>
> What's the use of embedding patch info inside of SVG ? Who will make use
> of that info as embedded in SVG files ? Why ?
>
>
>
>  but basically (to my knowledge), SVG is what programmers use to generate
>> vector images. Never heard of a single project that would use another
>> format, unless very special requirements.
>>
>
> I had to use KML, SHP and OSM formats last year. How special are they ?
>
> SVG is all over the place, except in software that doesn't use it.
>
>
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>  I just tried with inkscape, opened a file and saved it again in
>> inkscape's own SVG format, and that information is saved intact.
>>
>
> nice !
>
>
>
>  But is there actually any case when you care about pixel-perfect
>> reproduction?
>>
>
> Yes. It's called « making a screenshot ».
>
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