[Clipart] Notes on 0.06 release

[Jon Phillips]

Thanks Alan, but maybe you can budget enough time to add yourself to the
roadmap for this task of documenting our SVG support for the next
release. That would be a very big help.

Jon


On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 10:54, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Jon Phillips wrote:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:48:16 -0700
> > From: Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>
> > To: Alan Horkan <horkana at maths.tcd.ie>
> > Cc: clipart-list <clipart at freedesktop.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Clipart] Notes on 0.06 release
> >
> > I think that we should continue with metadata in the files, but possibly
> > strip it out when someone downloads. I think we should push upstream as
> > well and try to get these close and open apps to support standard and
> > compliant web standards.
> >
> > If you can help me compile a list, I will help submit. I already kicked
> > this off here:
> >
> > http://www.openclipart.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OcalCompliantApplications
> >
> > Please help...you are good at this type of thing...
> 
> To be fair to other applications it would be wise to specify version the
> version number whenever possible (earliest version that supports the
> metadata, or most current version that does not).  There is always the
> possibility of the web page going out of date so it is best to future
> proof it as much as possible.  (Just as journalists should avoid specific
> dates and times in their writing, conversely programmers really should
> date stamp things whenever possible).
> 
> Adobe Illustrator and any other XMP enabled Adobe software should
> definately be compatible otherwise we are doing it wrong and must fix it.
> http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/
> 
> Someone should check against the Adobe SDK, or ideally create a
> small test suite.
> http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/xmp/download.jsp
> 
> How does Sodipodi fare with our Metadata?  Would having Sodipodi support
> use be beneficial enough that we might want to try to convince someone to
> port any relevant code from Inkscape?  Adobe provide an SDK, can we
> encourage the Inkscape developers to devolve the metadata functionality to
> make it easier for other open source projects in general to use it?
> 
> I guess this is as good a time as any to mention the new Metadata work in
> progress by Raphael Quintet
> http://wilber.gimp.org/~raphael/metadata/
> 
> Sorry I dont have more time to help out.
> 
> 
> - Alan
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