On Saturday 25 June 2011 Jun, ja...@gmx.net wrote: > Hi folks... > > I want to make a proposal to move the svg supporting classes now residing in > calligra/filters/karbon/svg to a lib in calligra/libs/svg. > You may ask why I want to do that. The following are some reasons: > > 1. Make it possible to have support for loading and saving embedded svg > documents in odf files. > > 2. Support for copy-pasting in svg format. > > 3. Some shapes may optionally support to save directly to svg via an > Interface > (i.e. SvgSerializable) to implement. > > 4. Allow other application to add svg file format support easily. > > The first and third point is especially important for the artistic text > shape. > After improving that shape a lot it became clear that there is no way to > represent that shape in odf. So I had to remove the old insuffient > loading/saving code. This has two consequences: > a) the shape can not be saved to odf, > b) copy-pasting of that shape does not work. > This has to be fixed. > > So my intention is to create a svg lib which helps implement the 3 points > above and thus move the svg support to a more prominent position. > > Before starting on this project I wanted to get some opinions from you if > that > is something to attempt or if that is utter bullshit.
I'm all for it! -- Boudewijn Rempt http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org, http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
