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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: RC1 today?
From:       kudling () kde ! org
Date:       2002-07-29 11:56:25
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> kontour is still very broken, I hear, but Laurent and Sven have started 
> a kontour->karbon filter, so that people can convert their old kontour docs
> to karbon. I think this solution makes more sense for koffice-1.2 (and 
> possibly later, unless the kontour authors wake up again) than trying to fix kontour.
> If anyone wants to help with the filter, I'm sure this will be appreciated ;)

Hm, this will push some not so little pressure on karbon.
Besides that there is an issue which needs to be discussed before
forcing us into backwards compatibility: path data.

Dirk Schönberger likes the way SVG stores paths better. I'm pretty
neutral about that now. I think the current karbon way is more XML like,
while SVG abuses XML slightly in favor of saving space.
For the inocents: karbon does something like <path><line x="0"
y="0">...</path> while SVG does something like <path data="0 0 l...">
(very roughly).

The SVG way needs a path data parser in addition to an XML parser while
karbon's current version needs just an XML parser.

Any opinions on that?

Bye
Lenny
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