Repo Duplication?

[RealOrangeOne]

This repo seems highly related to https://github.com/sourcebots/tag-inflator. Whilst I think this work shouldve been done extending that script, that's another story.

If we're planning on using this repo / script to ship marker PDFs, I think we should import any functionality from the other script, and delete its repo.

Missing Features

• [ ] Building on a CI (thus removing interactive running)
• [ ] Use a virtualenv rather than a windows .bat file.
• [ ] Output SVGs (or alike) for easier embedding into other places
• [ ] Display more information on the PDF page, such as what the marker is of (Column etc)
• [ ] Orientation information on the minimal marker itself, rather than just outside it ...
• [ ] (Also, removing the images / random font from the repo would be an ideal improvement)

[PeterJCLaw]

If the repos are indeed duplicated, I'd be slightly in favour of keeping tag-inflator as it already has most of the things you've outlined that we want. While it outputs SVG rather than PDFs, the conversion from SVG to PDF is pretty trivial (in the simplest case it's a one-line inkscape call).

[ninjafrostpn]

Sorry, I shouldn't have made marker-to-pdf as a new standalone thing, I should have taken the time to understand tag-inflator. But... how does tag-inflator work? How do you use it? (also what is inkscape?) I started making something to put markers into pdf documents because we needed this at the time, it was annoying to do by hand, and I couldn't make heads or tails of tag-inflator, so made something simple.

[PeterJCLaw]

http://www.inkscape.org/ is a vector-graphics program for working with SVG files. When run as a command-line tool (rather than the full GUI) it can convert SVG files to a number of output formats, including PDF.

[PeterJCLaw]

Hrm, it looks like tag-inflator does indeed output PDFs too.

[PeterJCLaw]

Hrm, so from what I can see, tag-inflator doesn't have a mechanism to specify the size to inflate the marker to, while this repo's script does.

[PeterJCLaw]

tag-inflator has the advantage that the code is well separated from the input handling, so should be easy to modify to handle scaling as need (the current scaling seems to be somewhat magical)

[ninjafrostpn]

Aha. I had no idea that you could run tag-inflator from the commandline :) Anton explained and now it makes sense how to use it (but I had to use the python35 branch). Apologies for my ignorance, tag-inflator works perfectly well and can probably quite easily be turned to the intended application of marker-to-pdf, as you have said. I'll set to writing a README for that also.