[Clipart] SVG in OpenDocument

[Jon Phillips]

Hello all,

Would anyone be interested in following up on the problems between the
OpenDocument format and SVG?

Mental, you seemed most versed in discussing these issues previously. I
fear we are too late! OOo is geared up with OpenDocument support and I
noticed that Krita and other KOffice apps already support the format.
Man, why couldn't OpenDocument just use SVG man...ugh!

Inkscape will need to support import/export of OpenDocument in the near
future. http://books.evc-cit.info/odbook/book.html

I have added two bugs for this for export and import:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1235849&group_id=93438&atid=604309

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1233861&group_id=93438&atid=604309

How do you all feel about? What are your thoughts? If you are interested
in seeing a quick overview of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument

Scribus already supports this format as well.

Daniel, could you inform both lists about the state of your discussion
with OASIS about this?

Jon


-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera at digitaldistribution.com>
> To: Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>
> Subject: SVG in OpenDocument.
> Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 04:16:40 -0400
> 
> Hi Jon,
> 
> I've been trying to follow up on the issue with SVG and OpenDocument. I 
> admit I'm out of my area here, I don't really know much about SVG.
> 
> I've been trying to contact developers in OpenOffice.org in charge of 
> SVG import to get them to list where OpenDocument fails to be SVG 
> compatible and send the information to the OASIS TC. Gary says that the 
> TC really looks at incomming comments and will try to fix the format.
> 
> Since you know SVG, and you found areas where OpenDocument is not doing 
> things right, I was hoping that you too might contact the OASIS TC. The 
> mailing list is office-comment at lists.oasis-open.org.
> 
> I'm sure that getting the format fixed will be a slow process. I've 
> never heard of a standards body that did things fast. But I do want to 
> see the format fixed.
> 
> As for myself, I'm slowly reading through a book on OpenDocument, so I 
> can have a better idea of what I'm talking about:
> 
> http://books.evc-cit.info/odbook/book.html
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
> 
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Jon Phillips

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