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. Cheers, -- Thorsten --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
