Once upon a time, I advertized for creating instrument faces with MetaPost. This worked reasonably well for simpler layouts, but had some annoying drawbacks:
- no (semi)transparency - insufficient font handling - PostScript output not (really) editable Now I've made some tests with SVG. You have probably heard of this rather new W3 standard, although support for it is still quite sparse. The SVG language is quite powerful and easy to write by Perl/Python etc. Generated files can be edited in programs like sodipodi/inkscape/karbon and converted/displayed by GIMP, ImageMagick, etc. Unfortunately, *all* of these programs (as shipped with SUSE 9.2) failed to display the example file correctly. This is because I used SVG 1.1 for text along paths. But support will certainly improve a lot in the next time. Only KDE's ksvg could deal with the file correctly: generatorscript: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/test.py (3 kB) output: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/test.svg (8 kB) converted to PNG: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/test.png (57 kB) Note the comparatively easy use of fonts, the semi-transparency of the yellow arc, and the full transparency of the background (well, in fact it's just a chequerboard, but you knew that, didn't you? ;-) m. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
