[Bioperl-l] new to the group. And a quick demo of SVG::GD

[Lincoln Stein]

Hi Ronan,

You should coordinate with Todd Harris, who has gotten very far along the 
identical path, up to the point where most of Bio::Graphics displays 
correctly in SVG.

Lincoln

On Thursday 13 November 2003 04:22 pm, Ronan Oger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My name is Ronan Oger, I am the lead developer of the SVG module.
>
> One of the focuses of my current work is SVG::GD, a wrapper for the GD
> module to provide SVG (vector) output instead of raster.
>
> http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
> http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG
>
> I've been doing some tests with GD and GD derivatives, and since bioperl is
> a fairly heavy user of GD, I have been testing around some bioperl code to
> see how it works.
>
> There are some real issues in the SVG::GD at this point, but several people
> are working on it and progress is being made.
>
> Clearly this is not production code at this stage. In particular, font
> support is still very poor, and font positions are still broken.
>
> However, here is a bioperl-specific sample (you need an SVG-compliant
> browser, such as IE with Adobe or Corel's SVG viewers installed.
>
> A png and its svg friend taken from a bio-related example on the net
> ------------------------------------
> http://www.roasp.com/2003/11/13/
>
> More prolific example comparisons
> http://www.roasp.com/2003/11/11/
>
> The SVG::GD module (version 0.07):
> http://www.roasp.com/2003/11/11/SVG-GD-0.07.tar.gz
> (This module has a dependency on SVG, which is on CPAN)
> When it ripens, the module will live on CPAN.
>
> I'd appreciate some feedback, issues, etc. In particular, relating to the
> module's usability.
>
> All the best,
>
> Ronan

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