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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: The GIMP 2.0
From:       Brad Hards <bhards () bigpond ! net ! au>
Date:       2004-01-14 10:53:29
Message-ID: 200401142153.29426.bhards () bigpond ! net ! au
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 00:16 am, dirk.schoenberger@sz-online.de wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 dirk.schoenberger@sz-online.de wrote:
> >> I think more interesting it would be if the CMYK+custom colours could be
> >> directly used for printing, i.e. no implicit conversion to RGBA.
> >> This would make Krita a proper candidate for a KOffice part, IMHO.
> >
> > Of course they can -- only the rendering to the screen makes RGBA out
> > of it. Pity, though, that printing isn't quite done yet :-).
>
> I suppose this needs also changes to the printing framework.
> At least currently QPrinter doesn't really support CMYK images...
I went to Keith Packard's Cairographics (http://www.cairographics.org) 
tutorial today, and it was mighty interesting. He (and Carl Worth) have 
basically solved these problems for us. 
They have decent font handling (ie you still get native font support, and have 
a "toy" API for initial font handling), they have smooth rendering, almost 
everything is linear complexity, they have multiple backends, and it is even 
cross-platform compatible, the drawing system is state based, and all that 
Porter Duff compositing is done.

Worth a look for any future drawing package.

Brad
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