About Svgreader

[Thorsten Behrens]

Miklos Vajna wrote:
> AFAIK the filter one is used when you open a .svg file (which opens in
> Draw), and the svgio one is used to handle embedded SVG files.
> 
Yep.

> svgio is the newer code, it came in via
> 44cfc7cb6533d827fd2d6e586d92c61d7d7f7a70, the filter one much older,
> dates back to 2002. No idea if there are any plans (in the near future)
> to fix svgio up enough that the filter one can be dropped.
> 
The filter one originated from a HackWeek project of Fridrich and
yours truly, and still has some value I think, with its attempted
direct mapping to ODF. There (was?) also an option to have a
standalone binary built for that.

Both implementations make different judgement calls, which are a bit
hard to consolidate. The svgio one is always erring towards perfect
rendering, whereas the filter one tries hard to maintain editability.

Cheers,

-- Thorsten
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