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24 Jul
2004
24 Jul
'04
5:11 p.m.
Ted Gould wrote:
I was thinking that the way that we should do preview is by saving a thumbnail using the freedesktop.org standard for thumbnails when the user saves. Then we would get a preview the next time we got it open, we would be able to use our renderer (versus librsvg's), and we wouldn't have load a full SVG file every time someone clicked on the wrong file in the file dialog. Thoughts?
In addition to that, we could use metadata.
XMP defines a thumbnail type in it's RDF, and all Adobe products use it. So if we first look for those, and second include them when we write, then that can help more that just Inkscape, and can make us play nice in a shop with a professional workflow.