aaron@...749... wrote:
Inkscape should support SVG natively and only SVG. That's our purpose. If we can redirect all filetype conversion efforts to software that has conversion as its purpose, there are gains for the whole community.
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But sadly not too many programs or viewers support SVG yet so a pdf export is pretty vital - I have to use bitmap export all the time to put a drawing into OpenOffice, on the web page, send an email attachment, etc - try taking your Inkscape designed flyer to Kinkos to get reproduced - they need pdf (or something else but pdf is the best option). So pdf export would be a great addition to make Inkscape a more useful program. Is it that hard to translate the java to c++ ? Shouldn't be, though I've learned nothing in software is trivial.