Re: ODF 1.2 and SVG

cool - good to hear that you are already working on it. I'd be interested
to hear about the results of you analysis and the liaison email you'll
send.

Andreas


On Thu, February 26, 2009 1:22 am, Doug Schepers wrote:
> Hi, Andreas-
>
> Thanks so much for pointing this out.  I'm on it.  I'm reviewing ODF 1.2
> for SVG and Drawing content, and sending a liaison email to their list.
>
> Regards-
> -Doug
>
> Andreas Neumann wrote (on 2/25/09 4:56 PM):
>> Hi,
>>
>> The Oasis people are discussing new features in ODF "Next". ODF 1.1 and
>> 1.2 already have certain subsets of SVG in its file format (see
>> http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.1/OS/OpenDocument-v1.1.pdf) - grep
>> for SVG (mainly in attributes not in elements ;-() ODF also uses the SVG
>> path syntax and many other SVG attributes.
>>
>> I think that ODF Next should embrace more SVG features - to be honest I
>> don't have a full knowledge which SVG features are already in ODF 1.1
>> and 1.2 and which are still missing.
>>
>> There is a Call for Proposals
>> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200902/msg00007.html -
>> I think it would be great if the SVG working group or SVG IG works with
>> Oasis to improve the interoperability of SVG and ODF.
>>
>> Vector graphics was always a big problem in office suites - it really
>> should be improved.
>>
>> Any volunteers?
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>


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Andreas Neumann
http://www.carto.net/neumann/
http://www.svgopen.org/

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