Re: 2.4 feature list [svg]

msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
>>J.M. Maurer wrote:
>>
>>>>No. This should be a native feature....
>>>>The problem is printing. See Dom's comment about using native graphic
>>>>backend.
>>>
>>>
>>>If you want this native, then i think it won't be in AbiWord before
>>>version 4.8
>>>
>>
>>We really need that feature. This is why it hasn't been done yet. We
>>can't do it half wrong.
>>
>
>
> In that case we must use librsvg and all it's dependencies on all platforms.
>
> The alternative is rewrite it which is totally stupid.
>
> Can we get agreement to include librsvg and all it's dependencies for all
> platforms?
>

I am somewhat uneasy about the dependencies if it is to be for AW as a
whole, there is quite a lot of them. I would prefer it as a plugin in
the first instance, with a dummy SVG handler built into AW, which would
just render a small box in place of the graphics, saying: get the
plugin. But I agree with Hub, that this should be be *nix only.

Tomas
Received on Mon Jan 10 18:26:00 2005