[RkWard-devel] export via ghostscript added to Export (new)

[Prasenjit Kapat]

Hello Thomas,

On Sunday 25 February 2007 13:00, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> There's the mailing list
> rkward-cvs (from the time, when we uses CVS instead of SVN, and we can't
> simply change the list name), which get's an auto-generated mail for each
> single commit. It's pretty useful for tracking everything that's going on
> in SVN, BTW, but has a considerable volume.

I was not aware of that. I will subscribe to it.

> I've done one little change in SVN:
> Removed
> <connect client="autores.state" governor="isnotGS"/>
> and added:
> <connect client="autores.enabled" governor="isJPEGPNGGS"/>
> The first I did not really understand. Why should there be special handling
> for GS vs. not GS for this option? 

Oh well, I was just trying to be faithful to the old plugin. There was no 
option for "autores" in the old export plugin. The user had to choose a 
specific resolution, though it was initialised to 72.

> Also, while this is supported, it's 
> probably a good idea to avoid setting the state according to the value of a
> different GUI option, as this might change a settings, the user has just
> made. Instead, it's generally preferable to simple enable/disable. 

I agree, and I'll try to keep that in mind for future plugins.

> The second makes sure the autores box is disabled for PDF/Postscript.

Ah! I missed that one!

>
> I'll leave the old export plugin in the sources for another short while,
> but I consider it obsolete, now, and will remove it before the next
> release.

In that case some finer changes to filename and menu entries will need to be 
done.. Specifically, when export.{php,rkh,xml} get removed, export_new.
{php,xml,rkh} will have to be renamed to export.{php,xml,rkh}. Also the 
filenames in <code> and <help> element of export_new.xml will need to be 
changed. And then, in the plots.pluginmap (or under_development.pluginmap) we 
can just remove the entries realted to export_new. The old entries of export 
will take care of the new ones. I am sure you will take of these 
technicalities.

Regards
PK