Christian Lippka - Sun Microsystems Gmbh - Hamburg wrote: >> [svg embedded into odf] >> > I don't think that there currently is an active discussion about this > topic. My point of view on > this is that svg is the format of choice for low level vector graphics. > But ODF is an office > document format. Which is way more high level. If you have an editor > that supports all the > nice feature of svg, including animations media and all, I don't see how > we can put a > user interface around this which reattains all features and allows > editing by a typical office > user. > Hi Christian,
admittedly this is a side issue, for the user being able to use svg cliparts is much more important; but - you are not seriously refusing proper inline svg support because it confuses users?! Even if I would buy that (which I don't, the animation subset is less powerful than SMIL, so it would be supportable; everything else would just be totally awesome to have, e.g. the filters - and nobody is asking for complete control of every arcane svg attribute from the UI - no difference to ODF, or where's the knob that modifies the number of gradient steps nowadays?) - then let's start with a reasonable subset, like svg base or svg tiny. I'll leave argumenting with the political impact of staying with the weird svg-cherry-picking-and-semantical-redefinition to others, but it's not nice for sure ... > I'm not saying that we should not use svg in ODF for cliparts. But > currently is there an > open source svg renderer with a good enough feature set that could be > pluged into > an Office application? Feature wise I only know about the implementation > from Mozilla and > Webkit. Both are not very easy to integrate seamlessly and webkit still > has some issues > with non closed source parts. > I'd definitely go with rsvg (see other mail) for the while. > Since I think we all agree that we need the support of svg cliparts even > if we make the > ODF format more svg like, we should separate this discussion. > Agreed. Something for the oasis discuss list, maybe. Cheers, -- Thorsten
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