What's the TLA for the XML based vector format/rival to flash? SVG ???
Isn't that a cross platform future standard?
Would support for this not allow CAD to Adobe/Macromedia to SVG into MC be
worth more (especially if combined with some XML support)?
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Condit)
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:10:37 -0500
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Import of vector drawings
>
> Following up Philip Chumbley comments, those of us using MetaCard as a
> multimedia presentation tool very much need to be able to import vector
> objects. MetaCard, like SuperCard has a relatively primitive vector drawing
> environment. In SuperCard this was easy to overcome by drawing vector
> objects in a CAD program, and saving them as PICT files, and subsequently
> importing the pict file into SC, where it retained its vector
> characteristics. Unfortunately, the SC to MC converter doesn't import
> vector objects (except text, as fields), otherwise there would be a "back
> door in". I approached Scott Raney about a request to include vector
> import capabilities into MC, and his take on the issue was that 1) because
> there is no cross-platform standard for vector objects, any such work by MC
> Corp. was premature, and 2) adding this capability was of fairly low
> priority to most users of MC.
>
> I work on a Mac, and although' abandoned by Apple, thought that the PICT
> format might be a place to start, since it accommodates both vector and
> bitmapped formats in one file, and most Mac CAD programs still allow you to
> save files in a PICT format. Scott seemed to think, depending on the
> complexity of the vector objects one wanted to import, that this would be a
> reasonably straightforward task for someone familiar with MC. I put out a
> brief feeler to Tuv Snyder about it, and subsequently got involved with
> another person who, in his words:
>
> "has open-source C++ code that parses PICT files (and extracts bitmaps from
> them). Translating that code into MetaCard should be reasonably
> straightforward, and would be fairly easy for somebody who knows both C++
> and MC."
>
> This other person (a former SGI guru, and husband of a faculty member in my
> department), who was between jobs, has since taken a position, and doesn't
> have the time to donate to this effort, but forwarded the code to me. I
> would be delighted to send that to anyone who might be able to help out
> with writing an external to donate to the MC community in this effort.
> Unfortunately, I don't program in C++, so I can't help from that angle.
>
> With the advent of Revolution, and the migration of many folks for SC to
> MC, I hope that the need to import vector objects into MC will move this
> request up the "feature request list" - any comment on that, Scott?. I
> urge others who need this to speak up, and as I said would be happy to send
> anyone the C++ code mentioned above.
>
> Dr. Christopher D. Condit, Associate Prof., Dept. of Geosciences
> Morrill Science Center, Univ. Massachusetts, 611 North Pleasant St.,
> Amherst, MA, 01003-9297
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 413-545-0272
> http://www.geo.umass.edu/faculty/condit.htm
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