Hi Christian, > I sat down this weekend trying to import an image from applications such as > Inkscape, Karbon16 and Xara Extreme into OpenOffice. The results you find > here: > http://www.linuxrising.org/importsvg/
Thanks for your really beautiful benchmark image! Unfortunately, you write on your evaluation page: > So the first thing I tried was importing the SVG into OpenOffice. > Turns out there is still no native SVG support in OpenOffice. Found an > importfilter online > [http://www.ipd.uni-karlsruhe.de/~hauma/svg-import/], but trying to > import using it just cause OpenOffice to segfault. That's really a pity. As somebody else has noticed, your image opens perfectly well with the SVG import filter installed. But, if the import filter does not work for you: there is also a command line version of the conversion program. You may give it a try. It's available from the same page. It converts *.svg directly into OpenDocument/Draw (*.odg) without any dependency on OpenOffice.org. It's written in pure Java 5 and available in source code also. The result looks better than I had expected. Ok, OpenOffice.org Draw does no anti-aliasing and the green background gradient has a slightly to high intensity - but even the native SVG renderers in your benchmark seem to interpret the image somewhat differently. Btw: These gradient issues could be fixed easily in the filter, if only OpenOffice.org would implement the *full* OpenDocument spec! The filter does its best to convert into an OpenDocument flavor that can be displayed by OpenOffice.org. I agree that SVG import - or at least SVG display is an important issue for OpenOffice.org. But comparing native SVG rendering libraries and editors as libsvg and Inkscape against a business charting tool like Draw is somewhat unfair. Best regards Bernhard --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
