Bryce Harrington wrote:

Does anyone know how well we support the Open Document - Graphics (ODG) format? Is there an ODG<->SVG converter?

ODG is part of the OpenDocument Format used by OpenOffice. There's a listing of apps that support it here, and it'd sure be nice if we could get Inkscape listed there. Is there an SVG<->ODG converter anywhere?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applications_supporting_OpenDocument

Bryce

Bryce,

I am working on it right now. There are really only two things that need to be worked on a lot:

1. Info-zipping the file. It's a JAR file of content.xml, meta.xml, image files, and META-INF/manifest.xml (and other extraneous stuff we don't need). We just need to be able to create and read these zips.

2. Reading and writing the content.xml file. This is the drawing data. It's not a clean SVG file, but a mix of ODF and SVG namespaces.

People can examine these files to see what I mean, by saving a simple OO.org drawing, and changing the suffix from .odg to .zip.

I think that the people working on the "zip of svg + images" stuff might want to check this out, since it is basically the same thing.

This isn't really a divergence from the DOM work I should be doing, but a first exercise in using it.

bob