On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Jon Phillips wrote:
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 03:04 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Jon Phillips wrote:
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:07:31 -0700 From: Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> To: Open Clip Art Library list <clipart@...626...>, Inkscape Development Mailing List inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Clipart] SVG in OpenDocument
I really hope someone with more techincal authority than me will step up to this and I want to thank Daniel for tackling it (the OpenDocument format is huge and scary). It is a shame that OpenDocument seems to be moving even further away from SVG in an attempt to support more features when what we would like to see is it moving more towards SVG.
Would be great to be able to throw the main.xml from an OpenDocument at an SVG parser and get some reasonable results. The potential for XML formats to degrade gracefully is an interesting one and if OpenDocument was constructed as SVG with extras instead of new format vaguely resembling SVG it could work and potentially exploit a much wider variety of existing tools.
The OpenDocument TC is totally interested in supporting SVG and have
Correct me if I'm wrong but I got the impression they were ditching the basic Path element for something else as part of their efforts to support more features (connectors specifically i believe it was). Path is a fundamental element of SVG so using something else seems like a really awful idea. Hopefully I am mistaken.
worked to do this. I think things will get better. The main thing is that they have extra functionality that SVG doesn't support, and for these elements have made their own namespace I believe. I think is ok now...our speaking up paid off already.
Mental, you seemed most versed in discussing these issues previously. I fear we are too late! OOo is geared up with OpenDocument support and I noticed that Krita and other KOffice apps already support the format. Man, why couldn't OpenDocument just use SVG man...ugh!
Krita is the Paint application. I'm almost certain it is not using OpenDocument.
Karbon 14 the draw application is not using OpenDocument yet and is currently without a maintainer. If we have any enthusiastic C++ programmers interested in improving the SVG Importer for Karbon (and the exporter too) it would really help.
Yes, it does in karbon-1.4.0 on gentoo.
It is not using it instead of the default Karbon 14 file format which is what I had expected and confused me. Karbon 14 has support for Open Office Draw allright. (Kivio unfortunately however doesn't support very many file formats at all.)
Sincerely
Alan Horkan