Re: Features

Matt Kimball (robozapp@xmission.com)
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 21:20:42 -0600

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On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 12:14:37PM -0700, Paul Rohr wrote:
> This is an obvious feature for AbiWord. We've set up all the
> infrastructure for PNG-native graphics internally, so what's
> required are platform-neutral decoders for other raster graphics
> formats like these. I believe Matt Kimball recently made that task
> easier before he started working on vector graphics support via SVG.

Indeed. In theory, someone interested in adding support for another
format should need only to write an importer which can convert her
favorite file format to a PNG byte stream. This should be as simple
as adding an ie_impGraphic class to the impexp package.

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Matt Kimball
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