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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Adobe SVG plugin, Mozilla & Konq
From:       Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples () mtu-net ! ru>
Date:       2001-12-12 5:48:05
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If somebody missed this announcement, Adobe recently released thier SVG 3.0 
plugin for Linux.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/adobesvg/
Adobe SVG Viewer
ššby Peter Sorotokin - Friday, November 30th 2001 16:54 EST 

About: The Adobe SVG plugin allows Mozilla-family browsers to view SVG 
content on the Web or locally. 
SVG is a recently-approved W3C standard for vector graphics. 
SVG is XML-based, making it immediately accessible by the whole range of XML 
tools. 
It also has tremendously rich graphical capabilities, surpassing most or all 
other currently used vector graphics 
formats.

It can be downloaded from here:
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/svgviewer/linux/3.x/3.0x77/en/adobesvg-3.0-linux-i386.tar.gz

I downloaded it and tried to install.
Despite the fact that Adobe claims support only for RedHat 7.1 (and Mozilla 
0.9.1), it works ok with my Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and Mozilla 0.9.5.
You can't click on SVG file inside Mozilla (expected by me behavior after 
long KDE usage...), but testcase with OBJECT tag works fine - see it attached.
rect-fill.svg is complementary SVG file (just 211 bytes!... nice for a 
graphics file) - it was created in Kontour, just one rectangle with border 
and non-gradient filling.

mimeType checkout test also shows that SVG plugin was installed correctly.

Mozilla 0.9.5, list_mimeTypes4.html
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
mime 0 Type: [object MimeType]
Type: image/svg+xml
description: Scalable Vector Graphics
Suffixes: svg,svgz
- Plugin: [object Plugin]
name Adobe SVG Viewer
filename /usr/lib/adovesvg/libNPSVG3.so
description Adobe Viewer for W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics format. Click
 here for details. length 3
Supported MIME types for this plugin: 3
-0 MIME type: Scalable Vector Graphics
-1 MIME type: Scalable Vector Graphics
-2 MIME type: Scalable Vector Graphics

mime 1 Type: [object MimeType]
Type: image/svg-xml
description: Scalable Vector Graphics
Suffixes: svg,svgz
- Plugin: [object Plugin]
name Adobe SVG Viewer
filename /usr/lib/adovesvg/libNPSVG3.so
description Adobe Viewer for W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics format. Click
 here for details. length 3
Supported MIME types for this plugin: 3
-0 MIME type: Scalable Vector Graphics
-1 MIME type: Scalable Vector Graphics
-2 MIME type: Scalable Vector Graphics

mime 2 Type: [object MimeType]
Type: image/vnd.adobe.svg+xml
description: Scalable Vector Graphics
Suffixes: svg,svgz
- Plugin: [object Plugin]
name Adobe SVG Viewer
filename /usr/lib/adovesvg/libNPSVG3.so
description Adobe Viewer for W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics format. Click
 here for details. length 3
Supported MIME types for this plugin: 3
-0 MIME type: Scalable Vector Graphics
-1 MIME type: Scalable Vector Graphics
-2 MIME type: Scalable Vector Graphics

-------------------------------------------------------

Now about problem.
NSPluginScan in KDE _crashes_ on scanning directory with Adobe plugin.
I tried either to add /usr/lib/adobesvg to the list of directories to scan, 
or to make symlink from $HOME/.netscape/plugins as Adobe recommends for 
*unsupported* browsers.

Can someone with knowledge of Netscape plugins architecture to look at this, 
please?
[cc'ing Stefan Schimanski, nsplugins maintainer; Stefan, can you comment please?]

I do not want to promote closed-sourced standards (like Adobe closed-sourced 
plugin), but until KSVG is ready and works with Konq, I need some working 
solution.
Besides, it will be quite useful to compare KSVG with Adove SVG plugin 
side-by-side - just to be sure that *our* is better than *their* one :-)
 
As I can conclude from Adobe's ReadMe.html, included with plugin, Mozilla's 
plugin architecture changed somewhere around 0.9.0-0.9.1 releases (spring 
time)
So it can be that crash is related to these changes.

P.S. tested with KDE 2.2.2
-- 

Vadim Plessky
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["OBJECT_SVG_mime.html" (text/html)]

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Test - Placing SVG Image (picture) as an Object</title>

<style TYPE="text/css">
body, p {
	font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", "Geneva", sans-serif;
	font-size:10pt
 }
</style>
</head>

<body>
<H3>Image: rect-fill.svg, exported from Kontour</h3>
<P>Size: 128x128 pixels</P>
<table>
<tr>
	<td>
	<P>OBJECT width="128" height="128" data="rect-fill.svg" <B>type="image/svg"</B></P>
	<object data="rect-fill.svg" type="image/svg" width="128" height="128"
	align="left" border="0">
	</object>

	</td>
</tr>

<tr>
	<td>
	<P>OBJECT width="128" height="128" data="rect-fill.svg" <B>type="image/svg-xml"</B></P>
	<object data="rect-fill.svg" type="image/svg-xml" width="128" height="128"
	align="left" border="0">
	</object>

	</td>
</tr>

<tr>
	<td>
	<P>OBJECT width="128" height="128" data="rect-fill.svg" <B>type="image/svg+xml"</B></P>
	<object data="rect-fill.svg" type="image/svg+xml" width="128" height="128"
	align="left" border="0">
	</object>

	</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>end of test</p>
</body>
</html>

["rect-fill.svg" (text/html)]

<!DOCTYPE svg ><svg width="45.1555mm" height="45.1555mm" >
 <rect width="80" x="26" y="26" rx="0" ry="0" height="80" transform="matrix(1 0 0 1 \
-2 0)" style="fill:#97bce1;stroke:#011e64;stroke-width:2" /> </svg>



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