2012/1/11 Uwe Rathmann <uwe.rathm...@tigertal.de>: > On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:35:15 -0200, Thiago Macieira wrote: > >> A device with limited resources but powerful enough that rasterising SVG >> on the fly isn't an issue? > > It is - but as our layouts are fix during the runtime of the application > this only has to be done once. Later the icons are taken from a pixmap > cache ( a further optimization could be to store the cache to disk ). So > we only have the penalty of a worse startup time and when we show a page > the first time. > > I have to admit, that we don't need difficult SVG stuff - only small > icons/symbols, but they are many: > 1000 icons with about 60k lines XML > code today ( see: http://www.fendt.com/int/ > tractors_fendtvariotronic_terminalsimulation.asp ). > > One idea I had was to "precompile" the SVG images on the PC to something > QPicture can load. Unfortunately QPicture seems to be forgotten, when Qt4 > moved to a floating based rendering. It can't be scaled properly because > the boundingRect is not accurate and in integers only. > > By the way: because of this limitation I started to implement a > QPaintDevice in Qwt that is intended to have: > > - similar record/replay functionality like QPicture ( no save/load ) > - the scalability of QSVGRenderer > - it can be copied around like QImage/QPixmap > >> So if you complain that WebKit is big, remember that it's big *because* >> of SVG, not in spite of it. > > SVG is fine as it is something our designer team can create with their > tools and QSvgRenderer is good enough to render ( I was not even aware, > that it is so limited ). But if there would be any other type of vector > graphic format ( even if proprietary ) it would be fine - or even better > - too.
Have you ever eard of the Haiku Vector Icon Format [*]? Seems best suited for icons than SVG. [*] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_Vector_Icon_Format -- "Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice." (Steve Jobs) _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
