Re: [Inkscape-devel] Joining GNOME Office

On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 00:02, David Bolack wrote:

And as important as working with the rest of open source is, it's also important to be reasonably compatible with major closed source apps. So if, for example, Illustrator creates slightly broken SVG's (I'm not picking on Illustrator, I'm not entirely sure it will export them, even.) you need to be able to cope with that somehow.

Just a note on this particular example:

Surely it would be wiser to create a filter that converts the broken SVG into valid SVG. There really shouldn't be any cases where this would cause a loss of information, unless it's having another document type embedded in the SVG (but that's plain silly).