Re: Question about PNGs in a new shape set

[Tom Kast <tomkast gmail com>]

sweet - i will be a user/bug fixer

bpmn fan

ps
if you turn dia into a bpel engine i will purge self 8-|

On 4/14/05, anthonym overture com <anthonym overture com> wrote:
> 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>
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