Bug 64075: code pointer needed

[Thorsten Behrens]

Regina Henschel wrote:
> The polygon in that file is not explicitly closed, but has only a
> start point with identical coordinates as the end point. But in svg
> it is not necessary to have a closed outline for to be filled, but
> each open curve can be filled.
> 
> The current implementation is not able to have fillings of open
> paths. Therefore the "Import > Image" algorithm goes the way to add
> an additional drawing object with line "none", which is closed and
> carriers the filling.
> 
Sounds like a sensible workaround. I'd start looking into
svgreader.cxx:writePathShape() for a place to special-case that.

> I think, that is not the correct place to fix it. If you are going
> to force the case of "start coordinates equal end coordinates" to be
> "closed", then this should be down when analyzing the svg on import,
> when you have svg namespace. When you force _each_ such polygon to
> be closed, then it will break existing documents.
> 
Yep. That is sadly true.

Cheers,

-- Thorsten
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