[Clipart] OCAL identified by IBM as resource for Linux migrations

[Bryce Harrington]

Very cool, thanks for pointing this out.  :-)

Yes, if he packages it up as a GPL's lib, that'd definitely be something
we'd be interested incorporating into Inkscape.

Bryce

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Jose Hevia wrote:
> > Wow, did he actually say he wanted it in _inkscape_?  I see on his
> > gfonted page that he'd like to see it included in Gill, but the date on
> > the comment was 1999, so I'm guessing he stopped work on it.  Do you
> > happen to have a more current link?
> > 
> > If anyone is working on an SVG font editor, I think room could easily be
> > made for it in Inkscape.
> > 
> >From http://www.advogato.org/person/raph/
> 
>  16 Nov 2004  »
> 
>     Coins and stamps
> 
>     Thanks to everyone who sent Alan coins, stamps, and emails in
> response to my begging. He really appreciates it!
> 
>     Spiro
> 
>     I've tentatively chosen a name for my curve editor: Spiro. I posted
> a "code escape" here and on the Typophile forums. So far, I've gotten
> little or no response from my posting here, but lots of people checking
> it out and sending feedback on the Typophile board. Interestingly, many
> of the commenters are encouraging me to patent the idea and/or otherwise
> try to make money off it.
> 
>     I'll have a new code snapshot soon. In the meantime I've been
> tracing the miniscules from 72pt metal Centaur (see screenshot). There's
> nothing like trying to use the thing for real to point out what needs
> improving :)
> 
>     There's no rush, as I'm still tweaking the core algorithms, but
> obviously this is something that should go into other free software
> applications, most especially Inkscape. What I'm most inclined to do is
> release all the core code as GPL, package up nice Win32 and MacOS
> versions with refined GUI's (especially cut'n'paste with the dominant
> apps on those platforms) as commercial apps, and also try to license the
> code for inclusion in proprietary apps. We'll see how all that plays out.
> 
> ->I'd been reading his diary for long 
>  17 Oct 2004  » 
> [...]If I go this route, I'll need to factor the code into UI dependent
> and UI independent parts. That's probably good discipline in any case,
> especially if I'm hoping for the code to be adapted into other apps that
> need curve editing (Gimp paths, inkscape, etc.).[...]
>                                               Jose Hevia
> 
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