Is there a future for EPS vector graphics in LO ?

[Fernand Vanrie]

On 23/05/2012 13:08, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Fernand,
>
> 	Please CC the developer list :-)
>
> On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 12:12 +0200, Fernand Vanrie wrote:
>> Thanks for your interest, but i need some answers:
> 	Sure.
>
>> Will EPS in the future been exported as Vector Graphics ?
> 	I know of no-one working on it; but it's a nicely self-contained task
> to work on - writing an EPS import filter that would convert that to an
> ODF graphic.
>
>>>> SVG still problematic when exported to PDF.
>>> 	Right; I suspect it depends on how it is imported, whether as vectors,
>>> or as higher-res bitmaps (for embedded objects).
>> i just "inserted" the famous Pingouin in a writer doc,  neither LO 3.5
>> and neither OO  3.4 do a correct export to pdf.
> 	The SVG work is ongoing. If you insert an object in writer oyu will get
> a bitmap, if you load it in draw then paste it in you'll get an editable
> vector graphic; as/when we get the vector mode really good we'll drop
> the bitmap mode.
>
>>> 	I guess someone else would want to chip in here - but really, the best
>>> place to ask is the users-list - this is not a development related
>>> question about a code contribution.
>> Sorry, i hoped to find here a developer to produce the code ? and we are
>> candidate to sponsor this effort
> 	Ah - so if you want to contract someone to do the work; it's good to
> mention that :-) I guess there are prolly two things you could ask for -
> you could (perhaps) use the WMF preview mode of EPS, and (if we don't
> already) make the support for that work nicely in LibreOffice - that may
> be a producer-side problem. You could also get an EPS ->  ODF import
> filter, which shouldn't be impossibly hard to get something quite
> useful. I'd poke Lanedo, Credativ, Collabora, Codethink - that sort of
> consultancy for a price - or perhaps someone here would like to jump on
> that :-) I'd suggest thinking in the order of $10k+ - what is your
my budget is more 1k+ oriented :-)
> budget ?
>
>>> 	Either way sorry for the hassle; the hope is that the SVG rendering
>>> will eventually get good enough that it will provide a good solution
>>> here.
>> Will that been possible in the near Future ?
> 	Nearness is affected only by the level of investment ;-) but in the
> next six months I think it's unlikely.
>
> 	All the best,
>
> 		Michael.
>