On 9/27/05, Eric Jonas <jonas@...415...> 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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Do you mean "inkscape should only ever produce SVG files, and leave the conversion to other external programs"? or "We should really try and avoid implementing our own conversion libraries, and just use what's out there"? They seem to be two very different things, both from an inkscape-developer-effort perspective and a usability one.
I suspect that from developer's POV it's easier to use CLI options of other applications to provide import/export (I/E) in different formats. From users POV appilcations should support everything natively. It is usability disaster to keep some applications installed just because they have required I/E functionality.
This topic is often raised in forum/conferences etc. Users do want one good vector I/E library to be reused by different applications.
Thus creation of previously announced Üver-Convertor (I'm lost for words to express my disagreement with this nietschianish name, actually) is quite a good solution.
Alexandre