On 11/28/2011 5:14 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: > here's a test for the bug: > > grep -e '(format, input, output)' `dpkg -L dblatex|grep imagedata.py` > > which could be integrated into configure at least for a warning > > -m > > Michael and Francis:
(Michael) Great idea to enlist configure to this task (I wish I were as conversant with configure---and m4---as I should be). (Francis) I lost several thoughts in my first response about SVG. I think your idea that using this format eases the task of editing for different languages is a good one. Keep in mind that most usage of SVG is very-low level. You'd have to ensure text was being exchanged as whole strings and not bits and pieces. Even then, keeping the text properly located on the canvas as the size of the text string(s) changes may be tricky. I don't know if Inkscape does this easily. As a parallel to this problem, look at typical PostScript output. PostScript itself is a pretty complete programming language (I once wrote...no, wait, that's a story for another time) but most usage of PostScript describes just marks on a page. In principle, a PostScript file is directly editable but in practice it often isn't. Also, I forgot to mention that the different web browser-development teams approach the huge SVG specification according to their own needs and interest. It can be a challenge just to find competent descriptions of what they claim to have implemented. Fortunately, the Mozilla/Firefox team is pretty good (but not great) at this. The same concern applies to whatever software is used to bring SVG into PDF. An ideal SVG-in-EMC2 usage guide would include a list of "safe" and "unsafe" constructs that covers editing and conversion needs and also browser capabilities. Ugh. Hard to create and probably inscrutable to the wannabe documenters. I'm sure they'd rather have a list of safe software tools, and then they'd complain that their favorite tool isn't represented :-) Still, there's a fine line between being realistic and being pessimistic. I suspect our use of SVG will be mostly straightforward. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
