What about using pgf/tikz?
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Charlie Murphy <cmsmur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sylvain BERTRAND wrote:
>> Unfortunately, the C toolkits over there are turning very bad:
>> GTK+ and the EFL do depend on harfbuzz for their font layout
>> computation which is an *really* ugly c++ object-oriented
>> brainfuckage (uglier that the glib SDK dependencies!). I did a C
>> port of harfbuzz (drop-in replacement), but for basic text layout
>> (roman style). Then to keep your GUI suckless, you should package
>> a version of a toolkit to allow trashing harfbuzz, or avoid crazy
>> SDK deps... This is unfortunately more work.
>
> Hello,
>
> For a proof-of-concept, SDL (or X) is enough. The editor needs this
> functionality:
>
> - Draw shapes.
> - Change curves of existing shapes.
> - Change properties of existing shapes:
> stroke width, stroke color, and fill color
> - Load (paint[1] lets the user type 'rFILE' to load FILE)
> - Save (paint[1] lets the user type 'wFILE' to save FILE)
> - Nest/reference other files, like "symbols" in Adobe Flash.
>
> SVG and Asymptote both look very complicated... PostScript is a good
> output language but not a good source-file language. Maybe we need a
> new source-file format. See the attached proposal.
>
> How about a trio of programs like this?
>
> vectorrender - render a file and forbid circular dependencies.
> vectoredit - graphically edit a single file. fork()s to `vectorrender`
> vector2ps - convert a file to PostScript.
>
> [1]: http://man.cat-v.org/9front/1/paint
>
