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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Meeting minutes for the 13 February
From:       jaham () gmx ! net
Date:       2010-02-15 22:48:19
Message-ID: 201002152348.20069.jaham () gmx ! net
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On Monday 15 February 2010 12:03:34 Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Sunday 14. February 2010 19.19.44 jaham@gmx.net wrote:
> > > Odg is essentially svg graphics with features like connectors. So svg
> > >  images are completely compatible too.
> >
> > It could have been, but it is not. But such is life I guess...
> 
> What were you referring to? I'm not sure I understand your slightly too
>  short message ;)
> svg images can be used just fine, right?  You just need to convert to odg
>  to add features like connectors and actually make them into stencils.
> 
> Did I miss something?
> 

Sorry for my short mail. I try to be a little more clear.
Working on Karbon and trying to support odg as well as svg, I learned that 
what sounds good on paper, i.e. that odg reuses svg, is very misleading. What 
they are using is single svg attributes for certain properties, like svg:x or 
svg:width for positioning and sizes. Another thing what odg does is take some 
svg elements, but strip some things from them. I.e. not all commands to define 
a path are supported, text on path, etc.
Then the pattern support from odg and svg are completely incompatible. And 
there are other things one of them supports and the other does not (odf custom 
shapes, odf connectors, svg filter effects, svg masks, svg shape opacity,...)

A good read: 
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/SVG_in_ODF
http://idippedut.dk/post/2008/01/Embrace-and-extend---SVG-revisited.aspx

Ciao Jan
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