Re: [CREATE] ink/paper simulation

2009-08-14 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Christoph Schäfer wrote: > I also hope you understand that some vendors created Scribus XML files on > their own, i.e. at their own cost, in the expectation of being mentioned as a > supporter on the Scribus website in return. While the palettes themselves are > fr

Re: [CREATE] ink/paper simulation

2009-07-13 Thread Louis Desjardins
I just realise again that the Create Mailing List doen’t show into the cc list and thus I have to resend this post. Sorry for the bother guys. Can someone fix this, please? Louis Louis Desjardins a écrit : > Alastair M. Robinson a écrit : >> Hi :) >> >> Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: >> >>> Well,

Re: [CREATE] ink/paper simulation

2009-07-13 Thread Louis Desjardins
Alastair M. Robinson a écrit : > Hi :) > > Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > >> Well, one of the users came up with a very smart idea: a (Corel >> Painter-like) tool to simulate real paper and inks to see what >> actually would happen to glyphs printed with a small font size with >> different inks on

Re: [CREATE] ink/paper simulation

2009-07-13 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Boudewijn! 2009/7/7 Boudewijn Rempt : > On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: >> Greetings, gents and ladies >> >> A while ago Yuri Yarmola, lead developer of FontLab (which seems to be >> the most popular proprietary font design/production tool now), > > I've actually got a copy

Re: [CREATE] ink/paper simulation

2009-07-13 Thread Alastair M. Robinson
Hi :) Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > Well, one of the users came up with a very smart idea: a (Corel > Painter-like) tool to simulate real paper and inks to see what > actually would happen to glyphs printed with a small font size with > different inks on different surfaces and with different colo

Re: [CREATE] ink/paper simulation

2009-07-12 Thread Kai-Uwe Behrmann
Am 11.07.09, 02:09 +0200 schrieb Christoph Schäfer: Let me first describe the status of emulating background colours in Scribus. It's rather primitive, as it only permits to define an emulation of the printing material based on a Qt colour dialog (RGB/HSV values). What we need instead is a datab

Re: [CREATE] ink/paper simulation

2009-07-11 Thread Christoph Schäfer
Am Samstag, 11. Juli 2009 13:22:00 schrieb Tobias Jakobs: > Hi! > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 02:09, Christoph > > Schäfer wrote: > > The results are more than promising. While some major (and also some > > minor) colour vendors of all sorts (not just ink, but also glass or > > plastics) agreed to ma

Re: [CREATE] ink/paper simulation

2009-07-11 Thread Tobias Jakobs
Hi! On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 02:09, Christoph Schäfer wrote: > > The results are more than promising. While some major (and also some minor) > colour vendors of all sorts (not just ink, but also glass or plastics) agreed > to make their colours available to Scribus, sometimes in return for being >

Re: [CREATE] ink/paper simulation

2009-07-10 Thread Christoph Schäfer
OK, I'll bite ;) The issue is a bit more complicated as it seems to be at first sight (as it probably always is). Disclaimer: I'm describing the issue mainly from the Scribus point of view, but I think it may be even more complicated for other projects (or not, as I may very well be mistaken).

Re: [CREATE] ink/paper simulation

2009-07-07 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > Greetings, gents and ladies > > A while ago Yuri Yarmola, lead developer of FontLab (which seems to be > the most popular proprietary font design/production tool now), I've actually got a copy of that :-). Very old, version 2.5, and probably t

[CREATE] ink/paper simulation

2009-07-07 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
Greetings, gents and ladies A while ago Yuri Yarmola, lead developer of FontLab (which seems to be the most popular proprietary font design/production tool now), ran a survey (http://yarmola.livejournal.com/5333.html, it's in Russian, sorry) in his LJ blog to ask users what superfeatures they woul