Subject: Re: POW: ImageMagick multipurpose graphic importer
From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 26 2001 - 20:44:32 CDT
One further consideration for the eventual future is that one day AbiWord
will support SVG. ImageMagick does distinguish between vector and raster
graphics and ultimately this should propagate to AbiWord. But the question
arises: Should ImageMagick be used to import SVG?
For now, perhaps yes, to convert SVG -> PNG.
I have recently written a WMF importer for AbiWord which uses libwmf2's
WMF -> PNG converter, which I will post in a week or so, but I could just
as easily use the WMF -> SVG converter.
What is the status of AbiWord's SVG import & rendering?
I notice that image previewing results in the image being loaded twice,
the first time bounded by the preview box. Similarly, Word documents
usually state the displayed size of an image. It would be very convenient
if there could be additional arguments to the image converter method which
indicated a preferred and/or maximum image size, something like
..., UT_uint32 max_width, UT_uint32 max_height, bool exact)
Importers would be free to ignore such information, or to use it.
Regards, Frank
Francis James Franklin
F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
Their consultation consisted chiefly in propounding and supporting, for
the thousandth time, each his favourite theories.
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