From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Thu Oct 02 2003 - 20:49:18 EDT
At 2:38 PM -0700 10/2/03, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>Also, for the record, I have never endorsed RSVG for
>general use in AbiWord. I haven't even *hinted* at
>that. It is a plugin, and will stay as a plugin for
>the forseeable future.
I had forgotten that it was a plugin - thanks for the
reminder. As such, you are right, it's better off completely
stand-alone with all that that entails and not trying to directly
integrate with AW.
>And, also for the record, that's not a LOT of overhead
>for "just drawing" SVGs,
In general, I completely agree. HOWEVER, INSIDE of a program
like AbiWord which already offers a framework for many/most of these
things, it's duplication.
>considering what you need to
>do for the task at hand:
>
>*) Glib - for lists and stuff.
AW has it's own list and other classes...
>*) Pango + Freetype - for complicated text rendering
>that is damn hard to do by yourself.
AW has a text engine that can render most (though certainly
not all) of the things that Pango/FT can.
>*) Libart - for producing all sorts of RGBA data.
>Sophisticated PS/PDF drawing layer.
AW has a set of basic graphic classes that could easily be
extended to support the few missing pieces (curves, etc.).
>*) GdkPixbuf - for loading arbitrary image types in as
>RGBA images, so we can composite them with our our
>RGBA buffer.
And isn't this too already used/abstracted in AW for handling
of raster images??
>*) LibXML2 - to, like, parse the XML.
Already used by AW for it's own file format.
Leonard
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