On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Andrew S. Townley wrote:
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Wanting to understand issue with transparent GIF export
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 16:56, Alan Horkan wrote:
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Andrew S. Townley wrote:
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 18:42, Mike Causer wrote:
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:38:00 +0000 "Andrew S. Townley" <atownley@...16...> wrote:
Are there any plans to support exporting to other image formats than PNG in the future?
What I like about using Inkscape is that it is pretty sophisticated (sometimes a little too much so for what I do), so when I need to do something crazy, I can do it more easily than I could in OOD. Most of the time, I can deal with PNG as the image format (Word and PowerPoint generally do the right thing with it), but it doesn't work for cross-browser support on the web very well (and won't for quite a while).
Lets be completely clear, PNG is not the problem. Browsers are not even the problem, just one browser Internet Explorer which has utterly failed to support PNG correctly.
You probably already know that but anyone else reading needs to be left in no doubt that PNG is an excellent format unfortunately hampered by Microsoft failure to support standards and continue to developer their web browser.
From the rest of your post I can see you only want a little more raster
graphics capability in Inkscape which is quite reasonable. I've seen quite a few feature requests I do not believe could easily be implemented so I took my explanation a little further for anyone else who might have high expectations about even more raster features.