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RFE: making Batik fit for dummies, GUIs, shortcuts, on-line services
Batik is great, but i have some ideas to make it even better, make more
people use it especially, the keywords being fast and easy.
-provide alternatives for command-line scripting (it scares away
non-programmers)
-An installer that gives me shortcuts in my startmenu and on my desktop.
-on-line services on apache.org (web-interfaces for ttf2svg, the
pretty-printer and certainly the rasterizer, and a "WebStart Squiggle"
button. Batik is a lot better at detecting SVG errors than most/all
others, a validator.apache.org that gives the errors up to where Batik
stops rendering could be a limited but rather helpful tool.
Cheers,
Ruud
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Re: RFE: making Batik fit for dummies, GUIs, shortcuts, on-line services
Posted by "Ruud Steltenpool, http://svg.startpagina.nl" <sv...@steltenpower.com>.
Cameron McCormack wrote:
> Hi Ruud.
>
> Ruud Steltenpool:
>> Batik is great, but i have some ideas to make it even better, make more
>> people use it especially, the keywords being fast and easy.
>>
>> -provide alternatives for command-line scripting (it scares away
>> non-programmers)
>
> Yeah, I think a GUI interface for using the transcoder (and ttf2svg is
> reasonable). If you’d like to contribute, please do!
Here's a little contribution, some HTML:
http://steltenpower.com/batik_form.html
>> -An installer that gives me shortcuts in my startmenu and on my desktop.
>
> Sounds a bit platform specific. If it could be just a shell
> script/batch file, that could be ok.
That would already help a lot, and take a little
>> -on-line services on apache.org (web-interfaces for ttf2svg, the
>> pretty-printer and certainly the rasterizer, and a "WebStart Squiggle"
>> button. Batik is a lot better at detecting SVG errors than most/all
>> others, a validator.apache.org that gives the errors up to where Batik
>> stops rendering could be a limited but rather helpful tool.
>
> So I do have the webstarted Squiggle on
> http://arc.mcc.id.au/batik-nightly/, but I guess you are asking for a
> more “official” one.
Yours is very nice, i linked it http://svg.startpagina.nl, but...
One at the Batik pages would make a lot more people notice it, those
pages are more official and trusted, and a release version instead of a
nightly is what many people probably prefer
> I’m not sure about the validator idea though, especially if it didn’t
> give any more information than just opening the document with Squiggle
> would give. I think a proper SVG validator would be useful, though.
> It’d be good if validator.w3.org could do it.
You're right. I've hacked together a bit of code and made some noise at
w3.org and openclipart.org and especially at the last one it seems to
have started some activity on the matter.
Thanks,
Ruud
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Re: RFE: making Batik fit for dummies, GUIs, shortcuts, on-line services
Posted by Cameron McCormack <ca...@mcc.id.au>.
Hi Ruud.
Ruud Steltenpool:
> Batik is great, but i have some ideas to make it even better, make more
> people use it especially, the keywords being fast and easy.
>
> -provide alternatives for command-line scripting (it scares away
> non-programmers)
Yeah, I think a GUI interface for using the transcoder (and ttf2svg is
reasonable). If you’d like to contribute, please do!
> -An installer that gives me shortcuts in my startmenu and on my desktop.
Sounds a bit platform specific. If it could be just a shell
script/batch file, that could be ok.
> -on-line services on apache.org (web-interfaces for ttf2svg, the
> pretty-printer and certainly the rasterizer, and a "WebStart Squiggle"
> button. Batik is a lot better at detecting SVG errors than most/all
> others, a validator.apache.org that gives the errors up to where Batik
> stops rendering could be a limited but rather helpful tool.
So I do have the webstarted Squiggle on
http://arc.mcc.id.au/batik-nightly/, but I guess you are asking for a
more “official” one.
I’m not sure about the validator idea though, especially if it didn’t
give any more information than just opening the document with Squiggle
would give. I think a proper SVG validator would be useful, though.
It’d be good if validator.w3.org could do it.
--
Cameron McCormack, http://mcc.id.au/
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