Hello, almost a decade ago I create what I think was a pretty cool hack: A tool that allows you to take a screenshot of a running gtk3 program that produces proper vector graphics (SVG, PNG)! This allows you to * write documentation that has crisp and scaling images * copy’n’paste text (e.g. error messages) from screenshot * other cool things probably… The hack involved a gtk3 module, and the screenshot taking program actually instructs the real program to generate the SVG, using Gtk/Gdk’s uniform interface for drawing on the screen and in PDF files. The hack is a bit hairy (you are running code in arbitrary programs), and can crash (see #968031). I have not touched the code in years, and I don’t think I’ll be in the best position to keep it working. Is there anyone here interested in continuing maintenance and development of this? Or, maybe even better: Is there someone here who is also involved with gtk upstream? Because while I think the feature is great, the implementation is still a bit of a hack, and to make this really usable it would probably have to be a built-in feature of gtk. So maybe someone here can excite the right people about adding this ability to gtk directly? It would be a shame if this will just continue to bitrot… Package: https://packages.debian.org/sid/gtk-vector-screenshot Source: https://github.com/nomeata/gtk-vector-screenshot Blog post: https://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/502-gtk-vector-screenshot_code_published Ubuntu wiki page (German): https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Gtk_vector_screenshot/ Cheers, Joachim -- Joachim “nomeata” Breitner • nomeata@debian.org • https://j.oach.im/
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