Xara source released
Subject line says it all... http://www.xaraxtreme.org/developers/sourcecode.html
Thanks for the heads up John :)
-Josh
Hi,
I just test drove the XaraXL 0.3 release and watched the Xara movies on their website. One feature that really stuck out that Inkscape is missing is the ability to feather an arbitrary shape. I assume that this will come to Inkscape when Inkscape supports SVG filters. Which leads to the question, what is the status of SVG filter support?
BTW, both Opera 9 Preview and Firefox trunk (Gecko 1.9a1) have support (incomplete) for SVG filters.
Tav
Tavmjong Bah wrote:
I just test drove the XaraXL 0.3 release and watched the Xara movies on their website. One feature that really stuck out that Inkscape is missing is the ability to feather an arbitrary shape. I assume that this will come to Inkscape when Inkscape supports SVG filters. Which leads to the question, what is the status of SVG filter support?
Last I knew of any discussion was Bulia making a request on the list for assistance with at least the gaussian blur one and then my subsequent news post on the homepage reiterating his request... neither of which seemed to have garnered much response. There has been talk that we'll inherit filters when and if we switch to Cairo, but there's not been any performance comparisons recently that I know of which has been a concern of Bulia's, and no one has stated an interest in spearheading that switch anyway.
-Josh
On 3/17/06, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> wrote:
seemed to have garnered much response. There has been talk that we'll inherit filters when and if we switch to Cairo,
Cairo does only rendering. We still need to write our internal support for the svg:filter element and corresponding CSS properties - that was what I asked volunteers to work on, not rendering. This work would be completely orthogonal to rendering but we can't get any filter support without it.
-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
At least one Cairo person is here.
Any specific questions I should ask tomorrow?
On Friday, March 17, 2006, at 11:31 PM, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
There has been talk that we'll inherit filters when and if we switch to Cairo, but there's not been any performance comparisons recently that I know of which has been a concern of Bulia's, and no one has stated an interest in spearheading that switch anyway.
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 23:22:54 +0100, Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...8...> wrote:
I assume that this will come to Inkscape when Inkscape supports SVG filters. Which leads to the question, what is the status of SVG filter support?
It'll be done when someone implements it. Any volunteers?
(Bulia and I would both love to do it, but we just don't have time...)
-mental
On 3/17/06, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> wrote:
Subject line says it all... http://www.xaraxtreme.org/developers/sourcecode.html
O.K. I have checked out the source using svn and got it to compile and link. The user interface looks very polished (or does that mean 'old-fashioned'), but the current release may be missing signifcant functionality that is present in the xurrent Xara product range.
Ben
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