[vtk-developers] Re: vtkVectorText beyond ASCII - solution

[Will Schroeder]

Michail-

I have been following your work with interest. Many of us are not happy with
the text support in VTK. It has been evolving without real vision for
several years now, and there are backward compatibility issues. I think with
all that's going on our priorities have not been in this direction.

Having said that, I know I would personally welcome a vision. Since I am
traveling now, I can't put much time into thinking about this, but I will
make a point of talking to some of the developers here at Kitware to see
what their take is on this. Maybe we can come up with some reasonable ideas
together and put together a roadmap for future improvement.

W

On 1/8/08, Michail Vidiassov <master at iaas.msu.ru> wrote:
>
> Dear Sean,
>
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Sean McBride wrote:
>
> > I think assuming UTF-8 is reasonable because VTK already assumes ASCII,
> > and UTF-8 is a superset of ASCII.
>
> Nice to hear, since (as a second thought) it is much easier to make
> (re)encoding problems the problems of the end user.
>
> > Have you tried running VTK's tests with your new code?  Do they all
> pass?
>
> What tests? That tcl scripts that are listed as test for vtkVectorText?
> No. As you know, I have not got to recompiling VTK yet.
>
> On the other hand, my version is not a proper replacement for
> vtkVectorText yet, since that point size problem is not solved yet.
>
> What I really need is a speach from some developer on the state of labels
> in VTK. Their current state implies that they are not heavily used (esp.
> outside US/UK), since even in texture labels there are just a couple of
> old
> fonts with poor glyph coverage (btw, that URW PS fonts have some
> interesting derivatives, like free Gyre fonts with 1000+ glyphs).
> Not to mention the lack of typesetting in labels.
>
> Does the core VTK team have plans to improve labels or they are
> just being kept in the as-is state for compatibility reasons?
>
>          Sincerely, Michail
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