On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Terry Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think Inkscape takes an annoyingly long time to instantiate its GUI, so > that calls the edit_svg() are slow to get started. That's my guess too. >I'd assume that's beyond the scope of the Leo documentation process, although >the way it's been going so far I'm not sure :-) Heh, heh. Hacking Inkscape itself is indeed beyond the pale. > I'd work around that with a workflow where all the SVGs are created first, > with calls to make_svg(), and then you just work through editing them in > Inkscape, probably loading them through Inkscapes file/load menu. There will be a @bool edit-screenshot setting which if false will avoid almost all of the post production. >> I don't like the drop shadows... > > The correct way would be to just delete the drop shadow from the template.svg > (i.e. edit template.svg in Inkscape), and leave the disable/enable filters in > place to (a) avoid the slow rendering during edit when there are effects like > drop shadow in use, and (b) not leave cruft in the SVG file, not that that > really matters in this case. Ok. There will be an @path screenshot-template setting that will allow people to choose drop shadows or not. >> It will be best to resolve all these picky details before generating >> slides en masse. That way everything will be uniform in the final >> slideshow. Actually, redoing slides isn't horrible once all the @screenshot-tree and @callout nodes are in place. > True, the possibilities for automated changes to the SVGs after they've been > edited by hand for position callouts are limited. There could be an "add to > existing" mode, and a "replace text in existing in the same order they were > done before" mode (which could also add to existing if there were more in the > new list than the old). I'm pretty sure this will not be needed. See the previous comment. > I have thought of a better possibly design for the callout balloon template / > resizing system, but it wouldn't make a huge difference to how things work / > look. Fair enough. Many thanks for your work, Terry. It's going to make a big difference. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en.
