Re: SVG support

[Fred Morcos]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Matt Rice <ratmice@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Robert J. Slover
> <robert.j.slover@verizon.net> wrote:
>> Actually, rummaging around in that directory revealed a newer one:
>>
>> http://w1.423.telia.com/~u42308495/alex/SVGViewer-0.2.0.tar.gz
>>
>> --Robert
>>
>
> AFAIK libsvg-cairo the library SVGViewer is based on is rather unmaintained
> i'm also not sure that its what Fred is looking for?
>
>>>
>>> On Apr 17, 2009, at 6:34 AM, Fred Morcos wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am interested in implementing SVG support in GNUstep as I need it
>>>> for OpenGrafik. Where should I start?
>>>>
>>>> Thank You and Best Regards,
>
> When you mean SVG support do you mean reading or writing svg's?
> it seems like if you were using SVG's as a diagram format for reading,
> you might loose some sort of semantic information about the diagram itself
>

I'll use svg as shape format, but the diagram format will be different
(though might support svg integration into it).

> so i'm imagining you mean writing SVG's from an NSView as an export format?
> or extending the svg format somehow?
>

read/write svg from an nsview or imagerep

> not sure if you are interested in this at all, i haven't worked on it
> in a long time
> but it uses cairo directly, and can export png's/svg's (maybe pdf i
> forget) and display on X...
> it seems to support some of your 1st level features.
>
> http://gitorious.org/projects/ogdf-cairo-utils
>
> always thought it would be easy to hook it up as an NSView,
> might be something useful in there anyhow...
>

will look into it, thank you :)

-- 
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