[GEM-dev] libCairo = imagemagick?

m.e.grimm megrimm at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 15:52:15 CEST 2012


> $ convert /Users/megrimm/ID242.pdf /tmp/ID242.png

yes this works fine.

also, as a side note, SVG does load but $fink install imagemagick-svg
is needed first

> vector graphic (pdf) is converted to a rasterized image (imagemagick)
> which will then be displayed in a vector oriented scene (Gem) only to be
> rasterized for the final output (screen).

to clarify this is:

vector->rasterized->vector->rasterized

thats quite the process!

> a better approach would be to have vector graphics be imported as vector
> graphics (ala "model")

agreed. what would this look like? a separate plugin i assume? like
modelSVG or modelPDF?

m



On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 3:04 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
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> On 2012-03-26 19:30, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
>> no, pix_image with imageMAGICK can load pdfs (though it takes a while to
>> render them)
>
> and just for clarification: "render" here means the rasterization
> process if ImageMagick that converts a vector graphic into a rasterized
> image. the raster-image is then displayed (aka "rendered", but that was
> not the meaing i intended) using Gem, which should be fast enough.
>
> this also shows some obvious disadvantage of the current method: a
> vector graphic (pdf) is converted to a rasterized image (imagemagick)
> which will then be displayed in a vector oriented scene (Gem) only to be
> rasterized for the final output (screen).
> a better approach would be to have vector graphics be imported as vector
> graphics (ala "model")
>
> fgmasdr
> IOhannes
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