On Wednesday 29 June 2011 13:22:12 Inge Wallin wrote: > On Saturday, June 25, 2011 19:45:17 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. > > To add more SVG support is great. Not the least because ODF 1.2 recommends > pixmaps to always be PNG and vector images to always be SVG.
Is OpenOffice/LibreOffice capable of handling embedded svg data? > > You might be interested to know that there is a branch called libs- > unavail_save-ingwa that has some code that adds the ability to create > object replacement images in SVG format to frame shapes. It also contains > support for the unavail shape to show these object replacement SVG images. Sure, will look at it. > > The reason why I haven't put this to review yet is that I had merge > conflicts that led to an irritating saving bug that makes OOo unable to > read our objects back. > > -Inge > > > Hope to hear from you > > Ciao Jan > > > > _______________________________________________ > > calligra-devel mailing list > > calligra-devel@kde.org > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel > > _______________________________________________ > calligra-devel mailing list > calligra-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
