On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:20 PM, <ja...@gmx.net> wrote: > 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?
OpenOffice can, LibreOffice cannot. -Todd _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
