[Clipart] Gradients: sugestion

[Bryce Harrington]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Alberto Simões wrote:
> I'm fairly sure adding that extra box would break compatibility with Jasc
> WebDraw (I will have to double check this).  The RDF metadata already
> breaks compatibilty but thankfully Bryce provided a way to strip out the
> metadata as well as to add it so something similar could probably done in
> this case to create sample objects using the gradients without breaking
> the original gradients.

Well, the thought is to create an intermediary SVG file, so your
original is kept intact, as-is, but we would have a 'pre-render' svg
with the box in it, that would be used for creating the thumbnails.

> I believe the plan for the next release is to seperate out definition only
> files (like gradients or patterns) into their own groups.  Hopefully
> someone will be inspired to put together a script or tool to help make
> previews.

*Nod*

Bryce