[CREATE] Re: shared resources

[Alan Horkan]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:25:45 +0400
> From: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com>
> To: create at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: [CREATE] Re: shared resources
>
> On 8/17/05, Alan Horkan <horkana at maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>
> > If I recall correctly Cinepaint uses an version of the GIMP Brush (.gbr)
> > extended to allow greater colour depth but with no other major changes.
> > (I believe these changes caused some compatibility problems which have
> > since been worked around.  Cinepaint largely used the same
> > as the gimp but with a few extras to support colour depth you might want
> > to update the other ??? to reflect that it supports the same as gimp and
> > more).
>
> I hope that Robin will clarify that
>
> > > 2.2. Vector brushes
> >
> > gimp has another type of brushes .vbr which presumably are vector brushes
> > but I honsetly dont know
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157506
>
> Was it ever resolved? I don't see any *.vbr in
> /usr/local/share/gimp/2.0/brushes and there is only one vbr file in my
> ~/.gimp-2.3/brushes tha I even haven't noticed before :)
>

> > It also supports SVG gradients (issues with the previews but that is
> > another story).
>
> Is there a specification (RFC?) for SVG gradients you would recommend
> me to refer to?

I was using Jasc Webdraw (extinct) and the gradients were in the
format it used[1].  Unfortunately the parser in Webdraw was quite
brittle so adding any of the OpenClipart.org metadata meant the
gradients could not be used with Webdraw anymore (but I still have the
unmodified originals).  At first I resisted the changes because I wanted
to maximize compatibility but I have given up on that notion.

If someone would like to formalise things then go for it.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

[1] The Inkscape gradient management needs a redesign and by providing a
large collection of gradients it was my intention to force any redesign to
properly accomodate a large set of resources.

P.S. I will be unavailable for comment for the next few days.