Subject: Re: some graphic support, extra subdir, extra files, loads of Makefile breakage
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Tue Nov 30 1999 - 12:51:45 CST
At 03:51 PM 11/22/99 -0600, Justin Bradford wrote:
>> Has abi any plans for supporting a particular vector format ?
>
>I believe AbiWord will use SVG (the w3c format). It's a nice, XML-based
>format and should become more widely used.
Agreed. Just like PNG is our native raster format, our intent all along has
been to use SVG (or an interesting subset thereof) as our native vector
format.
Matt Kimball took a brief whack at this a while back, but IIRC he decided to
let other implementations mature rather than rolling his own.
Paul
PS: As a thought experiment, it might be interesting to see how much of a
spreadsheet's plotting needs could be cleanly represented by the current set
of SVG primitives. Just thinking ahead... :-)
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