On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 00:41:54 -0800 (PST) From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...1...> To: Johan Ceuppens <jceuppen@...180...> Cc: inkscape inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] inkview slideshow - was fullscreen
On 3 Feb 2004, Johan Ceuppens wrote:
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 17:48:46 -0800 (PST) Bryce Harrington <bryce@...1...> mused:
I'd try to keep it simple and would aim for a 'inkview --slideshow somewhere/*.svg' command as pjrm suggested.
This is a good approach to start with. Beyond that it would be useful to have it also accept the files in a compressed archive file (like a JAR file perhaps.)
Sounds like you should look at SMIL!
From what I know if SMIL it sounds like the right way to turn lots of SVGs
into a simple animated presentation. I've previously used SMIL to make a simple "playlist" of raster graphics to be displayed using RealPlayer* and I think the Adobe SVG viewer is also aware of SMIL http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/
Also I'm not sure if they are more than just defacto standards but there is already SVGZ (Gzip Compressed SVG) and the openoffice file formats use Zip compressed XML so I'd be extremely surprised if there wasn't some packaged and Compressed version of SMIL.
If Inkscape does as previously discussed move to using libgsf working from a collection of archived xml files shouldn't be too difficult.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
* Realplayer may have a dubious 'open source' license but I commend them for at least trying.