From: Martin Sevior (msevior_at_seviorpc.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Mar 28 2004 - 21:08:39 EST
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 03:30, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Marc Maurer wrote:
>
> > Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 15:35:05 +0200
> > From: Marc Maurer <j.m.maurer_at_student.utwente.nl>
> > To: AbiWord Dev list <abiword-dev_at_abisource.com>
> > Subject: Re: The road to 2.2.
> >
> >
> > > 1. Import Text Boxes from MS Word.
> > > 2. Import TOCs from MS Word and RTF.
> > > 3. Export TOCs to RTF.
> > > 4. Import (X)HMTL to the quality we export it.
> > > 5. Finish uniscribe complex text class.
> > > 6. Implement a GNOME-Office feature request for external apps to easily
> > > find and manipulate segments on AbiWord documents.
> > > 7. Finish the missing dialogs on Windows and OSX.
> >
> > Agreed (although 6 should not be a showstopper imo).
> >
> > > Other nice to have features would be:
> > >
> > > a. Pango-based complex text graphics class.
> > > b. Tables in Headers/Footers (though we hear few complaints about this)
> > > c. Text wrapping around text boxes and images.
> > > d. Maths support.
> > > e. native SVG support.
>
> > e. should not be too hard... maybe if someone finds the time.. it won't
> > break anything else when it is implemented.
>
> I'm hoping you say native you mean that abiword would store the SVG as SVG
> internally instead of rasterising it, storing as a PNG and losing all that
> information as is currently done.
Yes, that is what I mean. This is currently doable with librsvg. However
to print the image we'll have to rasterize it, which sucks but at least
it can be made to print.
Cheers
Martin
> If you mean more than that so much the
> better but being able to round trip SVG would be a great start.
>
> The bug report feature request for this funtionality
> http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5686
>
> Sincerely
>
> Alan Horkan
> http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
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