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Re: SVG?
by Maik on Tuesday 16/Dec/2003, @15:17

I'm currently working on a consulting project where SVG files are used as templates for printing stuff (all Java, using Apache's Batik (http://jakarta.apache.org/batik/) with the real data being inserted on the fly. Designers can use Adobe Illustrator (which is convenient for them) and our code can parse the templates quite easily (as SVG is XML based) and just manipulate the DOM tree.

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Re: SVG?
by Ian Reinhart Geiser on Tuesday 16/Dec/2003, @16:34

yes? and? so? what?

thats neat, its a great backend, just like EPS, or some of the other formats. the fact of the matter that you cannot just open it in IE, makes it pretty much a moot point. There are a fair number of neat tools out there, and SVG might be one of them, but until MS thinks its cool we are stuck... at least until Nutscrape, Opera and Konqi all take back more than 50% of the browser market... and even then... we still dont have good plugins for those.

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Re: SVG?
by Datschge on Tuesday 16/Dec/2003, @17:15

IE can't open PDF either, in both cases Adobe offers respective plugins, and IE can't do Flash, nevertheless it's called a widespread technology.

Anyway I think we shouldn't care about IE, we should rather look at what new technology can offer KDE. Regarding SVG I think it should be used by default for visualizing stuff within KDE, eg. in help tutorials and the likes.

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