Re: SVG support (was: Re: Generic Embeddable plugins.)

From: J.M. Maurer <j.m.maurer_at_student.utwente.nl>
Date: Sun Jan 16 2005 - 02:45:45 CET

On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 12:35 -0500, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 08:18 -0800, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> > --- Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr> wrote:
> > > > Plus, this doesn't address printing.
> > >
> > > Just print the SVG representation :-)
> >
> > <grin>
> >
> > This assumes that:
> >
> > 1) You have a SVG representation
>
> This should be a requirement for embedding an object. You embed the
> actual data and the actual vector representation for viewing AND
> printing.
>
> Why ? Simply because otherwise it is a nightmare.

That requirement is nuts. If you want to enforce this, you don't have
access to any Uno/Bonobo/Ole/KPart object anymore, as virtually none can
represent them as SVG's. Then you are better off with not having
embedding support at all.

Marc
Received on Sun Jan 16 02:45:42 2005

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