Re: Question about PNGs in a new shape set

[anthonym overture com]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 05:50:58PM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 anthonym overture com wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:53:10 -0700
> > From: anthonym overture com
> > Reply-To: discussions about usage and development of dia
> >     <dia-list gnome org>
> > To: dia-list gnome org
> > Subject: Question about PNGs in a new shape set
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >   About a year ago, I created a shape set for drawing BPMN diagrams
> > (http://www.bpmn.org/).  I used it for a while and have had several
> > people emailing me asking for it, so I thought I'd submit a patch
> > to have it included in the core dia.
>
> For anyone else who might be wondering BPNM stands for Business Process
> Modeling Notation (BPMN).  I'm thinking it would be best to label the
> sheet "Business" and only create a subsheet with the acronym BPNM later if
> we need to distinguish it from some other types of business diagrams.
>
> Please do attach them to a bug report.  I'd also be interested to see a
> sample diagram (screenshot, png format preferably).
>
> Using google I found this screenshot of BPMN
> http://www.bpmn.org/Samples/ebXML_Business_Process/ebXML%20Example.jpg

Okay, I did a quick sample of http://www.bpmn.org/Samples/Chip%20Design.GIF
and you can see it here http://ffem.org/~anthonym/dia/ChipDesign.png.  This
needs dia 0.94 in order to get backslash arrows and rounded corner
zigzaglines.

> If you can provide the necessary makefiles and other work to make your
> shape set translatable that will help speed things along too.  Grab a
> source code tarball and take a look at you the other sheets are done to
> see what I mean.

I'll get to this over the next few days.  If you want to poke at the shape
set before I get this done, I have a tar here

http://ffem.org/~anthonym/dia/BPMN-0.4.0.tar.gz

> >   The question I have with this is, how do I get my PNGs to look
> > as nice as those in the other shape sets?
>
> Tedious and meticulous hand editing.
> I used the exported screenshtos only as a guide and essentially redrew
> them one pixel at a time (using MSPaint of all things, only using other
> software for the PNG conversion and addition of transparency).

Hmm, I'll have to look around for some tools, I did notice gnome-iconedit
which might allow me to touch them up.

Thanks for the quick feedback.

-Anthony

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Anthony Molinaro                                 <anthonym overture com>