Thorsten Behrens wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 04:54:33PM +0100, Mathias Bauer wrote: >> I think going for the document filter is a pity. I think we need a >> graphics filter much more than a document filter as people want to use >> SVG in the gallery. Or do you plan to extend the gallery to be able to >> contain drawing documents that will be inserted as OLE objects? >> > Hi Mathias, > > well, the gallery does already contain draw shapes, used e.g. for > ppt import & custom shapes. Apart from that, you're right, a SVG > graphic filter would be nice as well. > > But there are a few reasons why I don't think it's the right time to > do that now. First off, as you know, I'm not happy with svm as the > common grounds for vector graphics, I'd rather render the corresponding > document directly to the target surface (at least I would do so for > any new filter). But which interface to use for rendering? > Naturally, I'd pick XCanvas, but that's currently a bit extended, > and to really benefit from it for SVG, would need some work at least > at the vclcanvas side of things. > > So, I kind of punted that for now - a stop-gap solution, that would > also be quite useful in other cases (and easy to add), would be a > conversion service, that transforms an odf document to svm. > > xposted; fup2 [EMAIL PROTECTED], please.
Yes, let's move the technical part of the discussion to the graphics list. But let me add one general remark that IMHO belongs on the general dev list. I don't think that an odg->svm transformation is acceptable as the performance would be beyond everything users could accept. I don't know the complete background of the discussion wrt. rendering of vector graphics, so most probably you are completely right from a technical POV. But OTOH - what does that mean for the SVG import? How many years of development will it take to prepare OOo in the way you want it before we can have an SVG graphic filter? Being able to insert SVG graphics into text documents like you can do with pixel graphics nowadays is a very often required feature. I'm sure that most people that voted for SVG import had this feature in mind and not the document import filter. Given the the low percentage of users that use Draw at all (compared to Writer, Calc and Impress) this sounds quite reasonable. So if my assumption is right - do we plan for user requirements or for technical elegance? (Admittedly a very provocative question but perhaps it hits the nail on the head.) Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
