[fpc-pascal] FP Vector graphics library

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Wed May 27 15:53:55 CEST 2009



On Wed, 27 May 2009, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:

> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 6:07 AM, Michael Van Canneyt
> <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>> Shouldn't it be part of FPC's canvas/image support ?
>
> But FCL canvas/image is for raster images. I don't see how they would
> correctly describe vector images.
>
> PDF can hold text, raster images and vector images. For this library I
> am ignoring the text and the raster image and using only the vectors
> part.

All correct, and currently we have support in FPC for raster images.
My proposal is to add your code to FPC so we also support vector
graphics: FCL-image seems like the appropriate place for this.

>> Or does it depend on the LCL ?
>
> No, I am talking about non-visual support for the formats.

Excellent, that means your design starts from good principles :-)

Michael.



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