Hello all,
Would anyone be interested in following up on the problems between the OpenDocument format and SVG?
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!
Inkscape will need to support import/export of OpenDocument in the near future. http://books.evc-cit.info/odbook/book.html
I have added two bugs for this for export and import: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1235849&gro...
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1233861&gro...
How do you all feel about? What are your thoughts? If you are interested in seeing a quick overview of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
Scribus already supports this format as well.
Daniel, could you inform both lists about the state of your discussion with OASIS about this?
Jon
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From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...878...> To: Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> Subject: SVG in OpenDocument. Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 04:16:40 -0400
Hi Jon,
I've been trying to follow up on the issue with SVG and OpenDocument. I admit I'm out of my area here, I don't really know much about SVG.
I've been trying to contact developers in OpenOffice.org in charge of SVG import to get them to list where OpenDocument fails to be SVG compatible and send the information to the OASIS TC. Gary says that the TC really looks at incomming comments and will try to fix the format.
Since you know SVG, and you found areas where OpenDocument is not doing things right, I was hoping that you too might contact the OASIS TC. The mailing list is office-comment@...879...
I'm sure that getting the format fixed will be a slow process. I've never heard of a standards body that did things fast. But I do want to see the format fixed.
As for myself, I'm slowly reading through a book on OpenDocument, so I can have a better idea of what I'm talking about:
http://books.evc-cit.info/odbook/book.html
Cheers, Daniel.