Re: Logic Gates in SVG format for Dia

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 27 Nov 2003, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
>
>> I see the fault in the fact that we don't have rotation and flipping as
>> a general thing for all shapes.  It's not something the shape itself
>> really should have to worry about, it's something that should be at
>> toolbox level.  I'm thinking by now that the best way is to have a
>> rotate/flip/scale mode that is separate from the 'normal' modify mode.
>> I don't think some in-diagram handles for rotation would work well, the
>> objects would just be overloaded with handles.
>
> Agreed. And most of it ultimately stems from the Core X font handling.
> Keith P. and friends are now addressing that. 

Actually, it hasn't been the fonts for a while now.  Sure, they'd look
funny rotated, but I've had text rotation code lying around for a while.
It's internals (how to best represent rotations, eps. given things like
rotated groups), and externals, how to make a good GUI for it.

> By the way another nice thing everybody but X has, and Cairo will give
> us, is an alpha channel. Yes, Venn diagrams.

I will look forward to that, but I wouldn't want to tie Dia to it for a while.

-Lars

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