Subject: Re: SVG and compound images
From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Tue May 08 2001 - 04:54:43 CDT
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> At 02:36 PM 5/4/2001 +0100, F J Franklin wrote:
> >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.
>
> Correct, we are still using (AFAIK) libwmf. I didn't even know
> there was a libwmf2 until I read your message.
Coming soon to an FTP site near you...
> Any chance you folks will be supporting EMF files??
To be honest, I know nothing about EMF, but I would certainly like to
implement this. It's how I ended up working on libwmf in the first place.
> >What is the format for inline images?
> <image width="1546" height="2198" xlink:href="data:;base64,data goes here />
I was looking at this (Duncan Lock pointed me here). From what I can
tell, this is not a solution except for _very_small_ (<1k) images.
Which is not to say that we can't use this mechanism. If we make the
assumption that AbiWord or ImageMagick or whatever can handle arbitrarily
long hyperlinks then certainly we can, but it cannot be the only or the
default mechanism.
Regards, Frank
Francis James Franklin
F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
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