Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-30 Thread MarcOChapeau
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:15:52 +0200, Pau Arumí [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On dt, 2008-07-29 at 16:16 +0200, MarcOChapeau wrote: I'd say PDF/PS export is not there yet. PNG has always been there but not JPEG. Yes it's there (I'm using version 0.46 - Apr 2008) I actually use it as the preferred

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-30 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:43:00PM -0600, Thomas Vecchione wrote: I'll be honest in that I personally find QCad to be invaluable for 2D drafting. I am not sure exactly how you are planning on using the vector drawing program is part of the problem. In the past I have also used Inkscape for

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-30 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Fons Adriaensen wrote: * Inkscape. After two hours of trying I still can't draw a simple rectangle. It gets filled (in blue) and all attempts to change that have failed. Draw the rectangle (it will be blue), then go to the Object menu and choose Fill and Stroke. In the Fill pane, wind the

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-30 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:00:28PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Fons Adriaensen wrote: * Inkscape. After two hours of trying I still can't draw a simple rectangle. It gets filled (in blue) and all attempts to change that have failed. Draw the rectangle (it will be blue), then

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-30 Thread Adrien DANIEL
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Fons Adriaensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Xfig crashed within five minutes. Wow ! I used to work with Xfig for longtime (now I use Inkscape), and I am surprised that it offered you a crash (particularly so rapidly) ! Anyway, my advise would be to take the time

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-30 Thread Thomas Vecchione
Ok that explains things a bit at least, thank you Fons. You are correct in that there are no connections(I think are what you are looking for rather than paths which I think of from Gimp/Photoshop/Inkscape as a bit different in QCad. I actually used to think that was a problem, but after doing

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-30 Thread Kjetil S. Matheussen
Fons Adriaensen: Inkscape lookd more and more as some GUI interface to Cairo. ATM I can write the Cairo code a lot faster than using the GUI... I was just about to suggest writing Cairo code. :-) pgf/tikz is probably faster than programming cairo though. But what would be really nice would

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-30 Thread Pau Arumí
On dc, 2008-07-30 at 15:25 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:00:28PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Fons Adriaensen wrote: * Inkscape. After two hours of trying I still can't draw a simple rectangle. It gets filled (in blue) and all attempts to change

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-07-30 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:00:28PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Fons Adriaensen wrote: * Inkscape. After two hours of trying I still can't draw a simple rectangle. It gets filled (in blue) and all attempts to change that have failed. Draw the rectangle (it will be blue), then

[LAD] Ladspa: Text encoding for metadata fields

2008-07-30 Thread David García Garzón
I have some doubts, as both host and plugin programmer, regarding the text encoding that should be used for Ladspa v1 metadata fields. Is there any convention? Utf8? Is it limited to plain ASCII? Which fields are restricted and which are not? I supose that unicode is supported in some way as

Re: [LAD] embedded high end audio

2008-07-30 Thread Paul Davis
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:52 +0100, Dan Mills wrote: The current plan is to make the audio interface look like a PATA disk excuse me, but are you crazy? does latency actually matter? :) which just happens to have say 4 sectors each of an appropriate number of samples, the logic to support

Re: [LAD] embedded high end audio

2008-07-30 Thread Dan Mills
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 20:21 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: Heh, this might be crazy enough to work, with O_DIRECT|O_SYNC and exclusive access to the raw block device. Heck, I've seen embedded audio devices that implement PCM as a stream of MIDI messages ;-) Wouldn't recommend it if your time