[Bug 253926] New: Shadow and outline in watermark tool

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253926

           Summary: Shadow and outline in watermark tool
           Product: digikam
           Version: 1.4.0
          Platform: Debian unstable
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Batch Queue Manager
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        ReportedBy: [hidden email]


Version:           1.4.0 (using KDE 4.5.1)
OS:                Linux

It'd be important to have the possibility to add an outline (or a shadow) to
the text, so that visibility issue can be resolved: a white text with black
outline can be used with any picture backround darkness, for example...

Reproducible: Always

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--- Comment #1 from Mikkel Christensen <mbc baekhoej dk>  2010-10-12 10:01:37 ---
There are many, many graphical features that I could imagine being useful when
watermarking an image. So many that I do not think it is feasible to implement
them in specialized versions in the watermarking tool.
I suggest that you create an image with the outlines, shadows,
alpha/transparencies, colors, fonts, symbols, graphics, etc. that you need and
use the image watermark feature instead of the text watermark. That way you
will have all the features of your chosen graphics tool at your disposal. I use
Inkscape and the GIMP, for example.

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--- Comment #2 from Stefano <rs4000 gmail com>  2010-10-12 10:14:12 ---
Uhm, I'm not sure I can see your point. I know that watermarking can use
complex things, and I know how to create ad-hoc watermarks, but watermarking
with variable simple strings (including for example the name of an event and
year) is exactly what I want and exactly what this tool does well. An outline
with contrasting color would just complete it, keeping it simple.

IIRC (may be wrong though) outlining/shadowing is directly supported by Qt
API... (shadowing actually is superflous).

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--- Comment #3 from Mikkel Christensen <mbc baekhoej dk>  2010-10-12 11:11:54 ---
My point is that different people need different simple things. Trying to put
all of them in the watermark tool is complex. The background feature that the
watermark tool already has already solves the visibility issue. The only
problem is that it looks ugly. Outlining is another way to solve the same
problem, shadowing is yet another way, but they are not the only ways. Myself,
I would like the shadow blurred. Other people probably want other things. We
will end up having implemented a whole, full-featured graphics editor embedded
in the watermarking tool.
I suppose you are going to say, "No, I don't want all those other features, I
just want MY feature!", right?
:-)
I am not trying to block the development of an outline/shadow feature. It
sounds very useful. I am just trying to advocate a certain way of thinking
about which features belong within a given scope and which do not necessarily
belong there.

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--- Comment #4 from Stefano <rs4000 gmail com>  2010-10-12 11:19:15 ---
No wait, you overestimate my point.

I just want the watermark to be usable AS IS, without any further
implementation. I don't want (or better, I'd want, but it's out of scope) a
full featured watermarking tool, or other means,  I just want this to be usable
under mixed background color pictures. It just doesn't fit just like it is now.

Outline is a font-related feature, not even a watermark related one.

Btw, we understood each other ;)

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*** Bug 312184 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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