[Bioperl-l] BioSVG [ Was ABI file parsing]

[Lincoln Stein]

Is Pastel your work, then?  If not I'll have a look at it and see what's 
involved in getting it to output PNG format.

(minor grouch: it's not much of a output-independent API if it only supports 
one output format....)

Lincoln

On Tuesday 07 May 2002 15:33, Malay wrote:
> Hi Dr Stein:
> > What other formats does Pastel support?  To replace
> > the web-browsing aspects
> > of Bio::Graphics it must support PNG, JPG and/or
> > GIF.
>
> Unfortunately, Pastel only supports SVG. But only the
> output format is SVG. For the final version I was
> thinking even SWF output. It has all the graphics
> primitives, AffineTransfom, Font, FontMatrics
> everything a complete graphics frameworks needs.
>
> > Where do I read about Pastel?
>
> Right now there is no documentation but the API is
> very close to Java Graphics2D API. It will be very
> easy to use for anyone familiar with Java 2D graphics.
> In fact I could not release the source code earlier
> because of the idiosyncratic nature of our web
> administrators that blocked SSH access, but that's a
> different story. :-(
>
> I'll be releasing a stripped down alpha version in a
> day or two with BioSVG. As such there is no CVS or web
> page except a small script that I released sometimes
> back to convert TTF font file into SVG font which is
> available from CPAN- "Pastel-ttf2svg.pl".
>
> I am not very familiar with GD library so it will be
> beyond me to enable Pastel to generate GD call.
>
> Regards,
>
> Malay
>
>
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