Re: SVG support

[Matt Rice]

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

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

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...