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From: "Nicolas Janin" <Ninja40@ifrance.com>
To: "SooHyoung Oh" <shoh@duonix.com>,
	"Matt Gushee" <mgushee@havenrock.com>,
	<caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr>
Subject: [Caml-list] Re:
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 10:59:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001701c35354$33c62dd0$9a823951@Pif> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003001c35316$75f8a040$fe00a8c0@hama>

It would be interesting to know how many people are directly interested by
such a project (provided that many people won't say they are interested, but
will eventually use such a library when it is in a mature state).

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From: "SooHyoung Oh" <shoh@duonix.com>
To: "Matt Gushee" <mgushee@havenrock.com>; <caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr>
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 3:41 AM


> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Graphics frustration
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> What do you think about SVG (Selective Vector Graphics)?
> It uses only text for graphics as postscript so it's not difficult to use
> OCaml for SVG.
> If you interested about that, I'll send you a few examples.
>
> ---
> SooHyoung Oh
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> From: "Matt Gushee" <mgushee@havenrock.com>
> To: <caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr>
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 1:20 PM
> Subject: [Caml-list] Graphics frustration
>
>
> > Hello, all--
> >
> > I have been working on an application which will generate on-the-fly
> > graphics for the Web, but I have become very frustrated by the
> > limitations of the available graphics libraries for OCaml. If anyone
> > reading this thinks there are solutions I have overlooked, I would be
> > happy to discuss details. Right now, though, my purpose is to find out
> > whether others share my concerns, and how much interest there is in
> > developing better graphics libraries.
> >
> > What I would like to see is a single library with at least the
> > following capabilities:
> >
> >   * drawing primitives: line, rectangle, ellipse and/or arc, perhaps
> >     bezier curves
> >
> >   * rendering text with arbitrary Type 1 and/or TrueType fonts
> >
> >   * antialiasing
> >
> >   * basic image manipulation functions such as transformations,
> >     contrast adjustment, cropping, etc.
> >
> >   * saving to common bitmap formats such as JPEG and PNG
> >
> >   * cross-platform
> >
> > taking the various graphics packages together, all these capabilities
> > exist, but as far as I can tell there is no single package that combines
> > them all. So, in developing my application, I started out with
> > OCamlPlot, but discovered that it
> >
> >   - doesn't do antialiasing
> >
> >   - uses only 2 or 3 built-in fonts for PNG output
> >
> >   - has a rather rigid and idiosyncratic API
> >
> >   - doesn't run on Windows
> >
> > Then I decided to try MLgraph + Camlimages, which is an improvement, but
> > still falls short: MLgraph is excellent for drawing, but saves only to
> > PostScript--and I find the final result, converted to PNG with
> > CamlImages, rather unsatisfactory (the main problem is that antialiasing
> > doesn't work very well, which may actually be a Ghostscript issue).
> > Performance with this combination is also markedly poorer than with
> > OCamlPlot.
> >
> > Then there's OCamlGD, which seems quite promising. When complete, it
> > will probably satisfy all my requirements; but there hasn't been a
> > relesase in quite a while.
> >
> > So that's a quick summary of my situation. Do others agree with me that
> > this is a significant problem? Are there any good solutions in the
> > works?
> >
> > I am happy, by the way, to put some effort into developing something
> > better. My contribution would be limited, though (I'm not a C
> > programmer, for example, so I wouldn't be able to create a wrapper for
> > an existing C library.).
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > --
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> >
> >                             --Lao Tzu (Peter Merel, trans.)
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-26  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-24  4:20 [Caml-list] Graphics frustration Matt Gushee
2003-07-24 12:03 ` Richard Jones
2003-07-26  1:37 ` SooHyoung Oh
2003-07-26  1:55   ` SooHyoung Oh
2003-07-26  4:21     ` Matt Gushee
2003-07-26  4:30       ` Alexander V. Voinov
2003-07-26  8:46   ` [Caml-list] Re: Graphic frustration Nicolas Janin
2003-07-26  8:59   ` Nicolas Janin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-04-07 11:50 [Caml-list] Fabien / maufred
2021-04-07 12:50 ` [Caml-list] RE : Jean-Denis EIDEN
2011-04-07 14:21 [Caml-list] nathalielibertine
2004-08-23 20:27 briand
2004-08-24  9:09 ` [Caml-list] Damien Doligez
     [not found] <200404290855.i3T8sxxM001342@host2.route66.net>
2004-04-29  8:55 ` alex
2003-03-08  8:53 Vee Satayamas
2003-03-08  9:06 ` [Caml-list] Seth Kurtzberg
2003-03-10 16:51   ` Brian Hurt
2002-10-19 17:14 climb
2002-10-20 20:15 ` [Caml-list] Alessandro Baretta
2002-06-17  1:12 [Caml-list] Problem with Graph module Nicolas FRANCOIS
2002-06-17 13:23 ` Jun P.FURUSE
2002-06-17 17:47   ` [Caml-list] Nicolas FRANCOIS
2002-02-17 16:05 francois.hugel
2002-02-23 20:56 ` [Caml-list] Nicolas FRANCOIS
2002-02-24 18:07   ` stalkern2

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