On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:52:51PM +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote:
Hello,
I'm actively using Inkscape to render my cable-text TV newspaper.
Wow, that sounds interesting - do you have an example you could show (just out of curiousity.)
I want to shrink the application layer needed for it. Starting with the biggest application Inkscape.
Is anything done on making the render part of inkscape into a shared object that can be used in an other application? I'm not looking for other SVG implementations because of the superb support of textwrapping in Inkscape.
This is highly desired, but afaik no one is currently working on extracting it into a shared object. Some work being done in tangentially related areas may help make this more easily done.
My first project is to put all dependencies of sp_export_png_file into a renderserver that allows me to have an application sleeping instead of startingup foreach svg file I want to convert. Eventually getting the Inkscape SVG renderer into Ambulant (a SMIL player), so I don't need intermediate files, then again, cache can be quite handy.
Could you provide some additional details about these plans? Possibly others could review your approach and suggest alternatives.
Thanks, Bryce