Re: FYI: librsvg


Subject: Re: FYI: librsvg
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Wed Jul 26 2000 - 08:41:45 CDT


At 8:46 AM +0200 7/26/00, Goran Thyni wrote:
>In the longer run it would be preferable not to convert
>SVG to PNG since you then look the resolution and the
>image is not scalable, ie you can no change the size of
>the image (with good results) unless you remove the image
>and reinsert it with a diffent size.

        We convert it to PNG for display (wrap handling, etc.), but
the original SVG is maintained in memory so that it can be used when
necessary, such as for rerendering on size/zoom changes, scrap
exchange, integration with other tools, etc.

Leonard

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