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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Radial gradients
From:       Jaham <jaham () gmx ! net>
Date:       2006-11-21 20:38:37
Message-ID: 200611212138.38054.jaham () gmx ! net
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On Tuesday, 21. November 2006 20:12, Peter Simonsson wrote:
> 2006/11/21, Jaham <jaham@gmx.net>:
> > Hi folks...
> >
> > Yesterday i got a bug report for karbon stating that it renders radial
> > gradients in the opposite way of openoffice (see
> > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137639) . The difference is that oo
> > renders radial gradients so that the gradient 100% color stop is shown at
> > the center of the radial gradient whereas a karbon and a lot other
> > applications (i.e. kriata, inkscape) render a radial gradient starting at
> > the center with the 0% color stop. I looked at the odf spec and it is not
> > described there how to actually render a radial gradient. The svg spec
> > says to render them starting from the center point.
> > The question now is how do we, as in karbon and koffice handle that. Do
> > we follow oo in its way or do we stick to the behaviour found in other
> > applications.
>
> If ODF uses SVG and SVG says it should start from center then do as
> the standard says... no point having a standard if we don't follow it.

Well ODF differentiates between svg gradients and gradients defined in the odf 
spec. SVG gradients are well defined the ODF ones not. I think the main 
problem is that oo is perceived as originator of the odf spec, so doing 
things different would be seen as making an error. :-(
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