[Clipart] Re: [Inkscape-devel] Adobe Illustrator CS SVG files + incompatibility

[Nicu Buculei]

Jon Phillips wrote:
> My girlfriend just made all these images for the clipart library by 
> tracing them in Inkscape (rock!) and then editing and composing them 
> with Adobe Illustrator CS. However, they cannot be opened in Inkscape.

yes, i observed the files and intended to send a bug report until i saw 
your message.

> I'm writing this to let everyone know that there are about 10 images 
> available at this link, http://openclipart.org/submissions.php, done by 
> Linda Kim that would be good for testing interoperability of Adobe SVG 
> and Inkscape.

i had a look at those images using eog (rendered by librsvg) and firefox 
  (built with native SVG support) so probably i don't see the entire 
image, but those files are *huge* (about 0.5 MB each) for such simple 
drawings (at least this is what i see)

> I created a bug on this and a new category for import bugs. If this one 
> fits your fancy, it should be easy to write a script to strip out what 
> Inkscape doesn't support, as can be done by hand in a text editor. 
> However, to get Inkscape to allow for various unsupported features, or 
> compliant svg that we don't suppor yet, might be more difficult.
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1153207&group_id=93438&atid=604306 


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nicu