Re: [Gramps-devel] Dashed Lines in PDF Reports

[Jakim F. <jm...@fr...>]

On 09/16/2010 04:39 AM, Benny Malengier wrote:
> 
> 
> 2010/9/15 Jakim Friant <jm...@fr... <mailto:jm...@fr...>>
> 
>     I have been working on an add-on and discovered that dashed lines didn't
>     work when using PDF output for graphical reports.  It turns out the line
>     styles have not been implemented yet in plugins/lib/libcairodoc.py.
> [snip...]
> 
>     http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=4237
> 
> 
> Ok, I'll review this patch. I'm working in libcairo with kulath anyway
> for a bug.
> 
> Note that this will only go in trunk however (release beginning 2011),
> so if you want to share your plugin for 3.2 version also, you need to
> write code that can detect if this is present or not.
> Easiest is to just use the plugin yourself now, and release to our users
> with 3.3 addons. If not a member of gramps-addons project yet, consider
> developing your plugin there.
> 

That sounds fine.

The plugin I was working on (PedigreeChart) is working and available in
3.2 and this was just an enhancement.  Since nothing bad happens if I
set the line style to DASHED, I can make the plugin changes now knowing
that they'll take effect in v3.3.

Thanks.

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Jakim
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