[scribus-dev] Path functions

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Tue Aug 2 20:12:22 UTC 2011


On 08/02/2011 03:30 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote:
>
>> Thanks. I'm not sure why this Path along Path never showed up...I tried
>> various combinations of shapes/curves but couldn't ever see it before.
>
> It looks like it wants two objects one of which should be a bezier
> curve and the other - a polygon.
>
>> This is something that definitely needs documentation (inside Scribus).
>
> Completely disagreed. This is something that definitely needs
> rethinking and a more obvious implementation.
>
> it's OK for something to stay a toy or a playground to try new
> frameworks (such as lib2geom in this case), but if it stays that way
> too long, there is clearly something wrong. Documentation won't cure
> it. Lack of human resources, I know. But nevertheless.
>

Personally, I think there is value in documenting well enough that 
people don't waste their time or get frustrated with it.

Even if these features worked well, I'm not sure I see the need.

Greg




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