[Inkscape-devel] NEW: Load from URL

As a configure-time option, Inkscape now supports loading SVG's from a remote URL via HTTP.

This is implemented using the GNOME VFS library. This is a library that Inkscape has not had a dependency on previously, so it's implemented as an optional dependency that is controlled during configuration via the --with-gnome-vfs flag.

In other words:

$ ./configure --with-gnome-vfs $ make $ src/inkscape http://openclipart.org/clipart//animals/bugs/butterfly_jonathan_dietr_01.svg

The file is loaded into memory and parsed directly, rather than saving to a temporary file, so it loads pretty fast.

Enjoy, Bryce