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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] Limit KoPicture's memory usage
From:       Nikolas Zimmermann <wildfox () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-08-07 13:33:07
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On Wednesday 07 August 2002 14:21, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 7. August 2002 13:20, kudling@kde.org wrote:
> > > However a real embedded object sounds a bit too much (e.g. if I embed
> >
> > That's what i meant with "tiny-karbon", it only reads and displays EPS.
> >
> > > * is it possible to directly convert EPS to QPicture, using something
> > > like karbon's EPS importer? After all Qt can render vector graphics
> > > already, all we
> >
> > What the karbon EPS import does is the following: convert EPS -> AI with
> > the help of ghostscript and then AI -> native. Dirk Schönberger kept the
> > AIImport by intention as general as possible to support different
> > backends additonal to karbon. I think he should comment here, but a SVG
> > backend or whatever QPicture can read should be "easily" possible.
>
> QPicture's SVG support is still not the best, even if it is becoming
> better.

That will take months, if not years.
There is SO much missing, you cannot talk about "svg" support at all in Qt.

Bye
 Bye
  Niko

P.S. When i started ksvg i didn't really see the whole complexity of it, too.

>
> Same problem with the AI detour: how many EPS features do you lose by this
> way?
>
> > > * the other possibility is a library containing karbon's core painting
> > > stuff, and KoPictureEPS would use it, with the EPS importer.
> >
> > The advantage of this solution is the nice antialiased rendering.
> >
> > Bye
> > Lenny
>
> Have a nice day/evening/night!
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