Subject: RE: SVG and compound images
From: Duncan Lock (duncan.lock@ROC-OFFICE.CO.UK)
Date: Fri May 04 2001 - 08:49:49 CDT
Hi,
If by format you mean image format then png or jpeg at least, plus
anything else you want to support. If you meant syntax then something like
this:
<image x="0" y="0" width="161" height="60" xlink:href="Roc
Logo.gif"/>
This points to a .gif and works ok using the adobe viewer on win32.
hope this helps, Dunc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: F J Franklin [mailto:F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk]
> Sent: 04 May 2001 2:36
> To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: SVG and compound images
>
>
> On Fri, 4 May 2001, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> > At 10:34 AM 5/4/2001 +0100, F J Franklin wrote:
> > >Hi, I'm currently working on WMF -> SVG translation as
> part of libwmf2.
> > Have you talked with Bob Friesenhahn
> > (<mailto:bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>) from the
> ImageMagick team? Bob has
> > already been working with Dom on this and has such
> functionality already
> > integrated into IM.
> > You missed a big choice - ImageMagick!! It
> already includes a
> > good implementation of SVG, supports reading in WMF files
> (and outputting
> > as SVG, or just rendering them) and is open source.
>
> Thanks for the feedback. I do know about Bob Friesenhahn
> though I haven't
> heard from him recently. I don't use ImageMagick, though I
> have built it a
> few times, and I `stole' from its BMP coder when writing libwmf2, and
> don't know anything about its SVG support.
>
> The goal of writing WMF -> SVG is cutting out all the
> intermediate steps,
> and hopefully getting better results. Especially since
> ImageMagick's WMF
> coder is based on libwmf, not on the yet-to-be-officially-released
> libwmf2, and is not yet fully featured - but correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Plus, there's abiword to consider, keeping the number of additional
> libraries and dependencies to a minimum, which is a bit of a
> joke with
> ImageMagick (though not with a mini-ImageMagick etc. etc. etc.).
>
> libwmf2 links with libpng, zlib, freetype (2); optionally libjpeg;
> optionally expat or libxml2; optionally other stuff.
>
> > >The difficulty arises when (a) there are multiple raster
> images; and/or
> > >(b) there is a mixture of raster and vector graphics.
> >
> > Why is that a problem? SVG fully supports raster
> images - either
> > inline or external.
>
> I stand corrected. Happily. I'm fairly new to SVG.
>
> What is the format for inline images?
>
> 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.
> --- George
> MacDonald
>
>
>
>
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