On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 17:31 +1100, Phil Rhoades wrote:

Jon,

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 17:14 -0800, Jon Phillips wrote:

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On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 03:14 +1100, Phil Rhoades wrote:

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Jon,

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Phil, please contact me and/or on the inkscape-devel mailing list about this. I'm jon@...235... (jon phillips).

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Great!

Have you got any idea what this might take in time/cost?

Regards,

Phil.

Could you give me a bit of background? I can help put you in touch with inkscape developers who could put the work with the $$$...

Your comment: "it would be killer to be able to click on an area and it zooms/pans you to another part of the document...or to another document." pretty much sums up what I want. The actual application I have in mind is something resembling a "mind map" or "concept map" for organising my various projects, which are all related to Life Extension of some sort (ie Biomedical/Scientific Research and Commercial). I have looked around at available software but I particularly want to use Inkscape and Ruby on Rails so it looks like I need to do it myself . . I could generate the svg from the DB but it would not be as nice, flexible and easy as drawing the relationships in Inkscape and linking objects to the data pages.

Yes, I agree. This hyperlinking is what you want. It is useful for a lot of things...would you like to work on this?

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linking is already in the codebase, but there are some specifics which need to be enabled for what you want...

I tried manually putting in the xlinks in the svg but it causes namespace problems - in any case, I would immediately lose anything that was added manually if I wanted to use Inkscape to re-edit the svg. It seems like such a useful addition to Inkscape that I thought it might be worth paying for . . depending on the cost.

I'm cc'ing the inkscape-devel list to see if others have played with this. Yes, someone in Inkscape would be interested in coding and/or working for pay ;)

The first (easier) step would be just to link to an external page which would do what I want immediately but your extended idea of zooming and panning within the svg would be an attractive second stage.

Is this what you need?

Yes, sounds great!

Jon

Regards,

Phil.