This is certainly a novel approach. Personally, I would imagine that you'd realize a much greater benefit by making these forms native HTML pages. That is - re-building these forms as actual HTML content.
Maintenance should be significantly easier, use should be easier, and someone in the future will thank you for approaching things in a more robust and manageable way. On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 11:30 PM Earl Wertheimer via gimp-developer-list < gimp-developer-list@gnome.org> wrote: > I want to create an editor that will allow users to ultimately create web > forms. > > I want to load an image of an existing paper form (.png / jpg / pdf ) > and then draw objects over the image. > The objects would be Checkboxes, text fields, etc... The kinds of > things that you would see on a Adobe Acrobat PDF with fillable fields. > The attributes would be position (x,y), text size, font, etc... > The position of the field/objects is critical, as they have to fit > over the existing paper form. > > By creating objects in GIMP, they could be moved around to match the > underlying image and take advantage of the existing tools - snap to > grid, etc.. > > Finally, when all the objects are created, the user would generate the > corresponding html file, including the input fields. > Eg. > <input name="Pat_Nam" id="Pat_Nam" type="text" class="noborder" > style="position:absolute; left:428px; top:28px; width:280px; > height:20px;" oscarDB=first_last_name > > <input name="HIN_No" id="HIN_No" type="text" class="noborder" > style="position:absolute; left:428px; top:60px; width:143px; > height:20px;" oscarDB=hinc > > > Why GIMP? The system I am writing this for is an Open Source EMR > (Electronic Medical Records) system and I don't want to reinvent the > wheel. We have hundreds of these forms and need to constantly update > them. > > All the other 'web form creation' tools like Orbeon are not completely > Open Source.. > > If you want to see the types of forms we need to generate, see the > following site: > https://worldoscar.org/?page_id=52 > > The probable first step would be to write something that would parse > existing html forms (we have lots) and create the objects in GIMP... > > Does this seem doable? > If not, can you recommend another solution? > > Thanks in advance... > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org > List membership: > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list > -- https://patdavid.net GPG: 66D1 7CA6 8088 4874 946D 18BD 67C7 6219 89E9 57AC _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
