I've put together an AppImage with the latest version of the SVG export WIP. You're welcome to try it out and see what you think. You can get it by going to "View exposed Artifacts", clicking on "Linux Appimage", then following the links down until you get to the actual .appImage file.
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plug-ins: Initial SVG export support (!2469) · Merge requests · GNOME / GIMP · GitLab
This patch adds initial support for exporting SVGs, based largely on code from /app/path/gimppath-export.c. It currently exports any vector layer a...
Progress continues on SVG export! Now it exports layer groups and some initial text layers (font-size only for now). I've got an initial GUI with options - next step is to enable saving raster layers as embedded base64 encoded images. I also want to give the option to link raster layers, but one step at a time. (My secondary goal is to make sure the SVG output is correct so I don't create new bug reports for @npub1wg8l...q6l7 in #Inkscape !) image
As a test of our new vector layer public API, I've started work on an SVG export plug-in in #GIMP
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plug-ins: Initial SVG export support (!2469) · Merge requests · GNOME / GIMP · GitLab
This patch adds initial support for exporting SVGs, based largely on code from /app/path/gimppath-export.c. It currently exports any vector layer a...
 My hope is this will be helpful to people who want to export their projects for further work in dedicated vector graphics editors like #inkscape ! Feel free to share if there are any export options you think we should add (the immediate one is how to handle raster layers - ignore, embed, or link are the current options we're thinking)
We recently merged an initial version of vector layers in #GIMP ! Very happy that we were able to update Hendrik Boom's 2006 project and finally get it across the finish line. :) There's still plenty of UI/UX work to be done but I'm curious - what are some good "next steps" for vector layers in a raster editor? I assume vector layer masks would be helpful, along with the long-requested shape tool.
From my WIP branch, CMYK channels in #GIMP !
Is anyone familiar with Meng+Scott Allen Burns upsampling? I'm working on implementing spectral/pigment blending for GIMP's MyPaint brushes (now that we've ported to the version 2 brushes). I'm trying to learn more about the theory behind the blending, and according to
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MyPaint 2.0 alpha released with spectral pigment brush+layer mode
http://mypaint.org/blog/2019/01/26/MyPaint-2.0-alpha/ Compositing in a subtractive pigment-like way has been very confusing and a long journey. H...
, they used a modified "Meng+Scott Allen Burns upsampling" algorithm. I assume there's some research paper that discusses it, but I haven't had much luck yet finding a specific one by Meng & Burns.