Thank you very much for replying. I am using Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. I am using LibreOffice 3.4.2 OOO340m1 (Build:203) Xara Xtreme doesn't support that format. I downloaded it this morning and tested it. The Xara Pro Designer 7 doesn't support the format either. However Xara will open Acorn .DRW files. I have been checking the difference between Inkscape and Plain SVG files. I can't find a difference now. They both open if Inkscape and LO doesn't open them properly. There appears to be no difference between them. Maybe I am forgetting something that happened. However I am not sure if Inkscape is saving in Plain SVG anyway. It has a dialogue box that says you are saving a file in an inferior version of SVG would you like to save as inkscape SVG or Cancel or Continue Without Saving. The file named Plain SVG that I had saved was still there after I had finally closed the dialogue box. Although the SVG files will open with the Gimp, the text is messed up. Some of the text is not in the original boxes. LO will open the files in Drawing, but with no text at all! Embedding the images in a Writer ODF document is even worse using the Insert->Picture route. This produces the lines, but they are all messed up with lines going back on themselves like triangles. Maybe these are existing dark links in the file. Again no text. Note that All the SVG files open in Safari and Firefox also Internet Explorer 6 in Windows XP. One final point, how do you get the email list to do paragraphs with line feeds? When my first post was posted to the list, all the new lines for change of paragraphs were removed! I have indented each para with 5 spaces - tabs don't work on yahoo mail website!
Declan Moriarty --- On Sat, 27/8/11, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <[email protected]> wrote: From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice won't display SVG file generated by LibreOffice To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, 27 August, 2011, 22:37 Could you tell us what LibreOffice you are using? 3.3.# or 3.4.# Currently 3.3.4 is out for that line, while 3.4.2 is out for its, along with the previous versions. What MAC OS are you using? It is always nice to know that a specific version is working well on a specific OS for one of LO's users. For my part I have only use Windows and Ubuntu/Linux version of it. I also use Inkscape now, but I came from Corel Draw vector graphics when I ran Windows as my default OS, but Ubuntu is my on my desktop as my default OS, with Windows on only one laptop. I did not know about the issues between "Inkscape SVG" and "Standard SVG" and other packages, thanks. I wonder if "Xara Xtreme" supports that .DRW format? On 08/27/2011 05:16 PM, Declan Moriarty wrote: > I have 2 Freelance Graphics .DRW files that I have been converting to other > formats by various means. I have generated SVG files using Inkscape on the > mac and Sketch on the mac. I have also generated an SVG file from a ODP > presentation produced from one of the .DRW files. > The SVG file generated by the ODP presentation won't import into LibreOffice > Drawing. You get the lines but not the text. The embedding option > Insert->Picture route into Writer is even worse the lines are displayed > wrongly and you don't get text. > What sort of SVG files does LibreOffice produce? After doing considerable > work on this, I am of the conclusion that the SVG format is particularly > flakey, or the programs that are supposed to edit it are dreadful. The SVG > file generated by LibreOffice looks better in preview on the Mac than the SVG > files generated by Inkscape. > Another curious thing is that the "Inkscape SVG" files I have generated are > better (Open in more programs and are more reliable) than the "Standard SVG" > files generated by Inkscape. Sketch seems to be worse at SVG import than > Inkscape. This is particularly dreadful since Sketch is a paid for program. > I am using a trial version. On this basis I won't be paying for it when the > trial runs out. > Other than that LibreOffice is much better than Open Office. With Open > Office on the mac I had to have NeoOffice as well. The fonts in Open Office > weren't very good, at low zooms you got screen corruption. NeoOffice > corrected this problem, however NeoOffice doesn't use VoiceOver the mac > screenreader. I don't use VoiceOver as a rule, but I wan't a program that > can use it if necessary. NeoOffice management have said that they don't > support VoiceOver, that I think is reprehensible. LibreOffice on the other > hand does support VoiceOver and solves the font corruption problem. So I > have got rid of NeoOffice. Also sine NeoOffice is a paid for program (where > you have to pay before you try) I have gone to the far better free > LibreOffice. > I really would like to get a proper SVG file generated for these 2 .DRW > files, that I can archive, and have confidence that I will find a program > that will be able to read this "standard" format in the future. Note that > both the Inkscape and LibreOffice SVG files display in a web browser. I have > already got PDF and EPS files from these 2 .DRW files, I just wanted to have > more options for the future. > Thank you very much for your attention. > > Declan Moriarty -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
