Re: [Inkscape-devel] filter for inkscape and OpenDocument
Jon Phillips wrote:
Heya,
I just read your nice interview at groklaw
(http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050130002908154). First of
all, this is really exciting, but I wonder if you could write up more
about what is needed of Inkscape for this new format. I see in your
interview you note that there is a needed filter for Inkscape, but it is
not clarified what this means. I'm cc'ing the Inkscape development list
about this. I just wonder how this OpenDocument format (the newly
standardized open office xml format) relates to Inkscape and what you
are asking to be done.
first: the OpenDocument format is something like 99% identical with the
old OpenOffice.org format.
i'm not sure what was Daniel idea, but i'll speculate: OpenOffice.org
Draw files are XML and very similar with SVG, probably this is why
Daniel expect such import filter to be not to hard to develop.
BTW, Daniel, you forgot to mention in the Groklaw article that
OpenOffice.org file format is supported also by Scribus:
http://www.scribus.org.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=a...
Or do you want a filter that say one has an SVG file, then one can
convert that to an OpenDocument file. I don't think that would be
i think he want the other way around: Inkscape to be able to open
OpenDocument files (probably the ones made in OOo Draw)
difficult. But, what about OpenOffice support for the SVG file
format?
OpenOffice.org can *export* in SVG.
for import, some work (using a xslt filter) is done here:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2497
--
nicu