[scribus-dev] Scribus CTL

[Scribus User]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 12:57 AM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>
wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 10:56:16PM +0100, Craig Bradney wrote:
> > > We managed to finally rebase the work, it can now be found at:
> > > https://github.com/HOST-Oman/scribus/tree/boxes
> > >
> > > It builds and runs, but some regressions were introduced during the
> > > (complex) rebase, we are now tracking them down then back to completing
> > > the work. We really appreciate if people can poke around and tell us if
> > > we are moving on the right direction.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Khaled
> > >
> > > P.S. Since Andreas is not responding again and the more we work on the
> > > code the harder it is to rebase, we had to abandon work on the old pull
> > > request to his GitHub repository in order to be able to rebase the
> code.
> >
> >
> > Cool stuff. Building it now so I can help a little if required to help
> > merge/diff/patch in the future.
>
> Great. We just fixed the couple of regressions we found after the merge
> and the code should be now back to the same state before the merge,
> which is that screen rendering is OK, PDF semi-works and we are working
> on completing it, all other backends are broken (PS, SVG, XPS,
> ScPageOutput?).
>
> To give an overview of the changes:
>
> A new boxes model have been introduced, there are currently 3 box types
> implemented: GroupBox (kind of a container for other boxes), LineBox (a
> specialised GroupBox for lines) and GlyphBox (the smallest box
> containing a glyph or group of closely related glyphs).
>
> The result of PageItem_TextFrame::layout() is packaged in a GroupBox
> containing LineBoxes which in turn contain GlyphBoxes. There is a
> Box::render() method (implemented by all subclasses) that takes a
> ScPainter and do all the heavy lifting of rendering a box and eventually
> calls ScPainter primitives to do the actual rendering (drawLine,
> drawGlyph, etc.).
>
> ScPainter have been turned into a virtual class, with specialised
> implementations for each target output. The existing Cairo-based painter
> have been turned into a ScScreenPainter (but I think ScImagePainter
> would be more accurate now since I just found that it draws to a Cairo
> image surface). A new PdfPainter have been introduced for PDF output
> (incomplete yet), and there should be a new PsPainter, SvgPainter, etc.
> all implementing the output-specific code.
>
> Regards,
> Khaled


Great! Rebuilding now.

Questions:
1) Should I submit bugs to https://github.com/HOST-Oman/scribus/issues ?
2) Are you guys going to have a roadmap to help testers see where you'd
like to see tests more focused on?

/Kunda
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