- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 11:33:28 +0100 (BST)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> Is it possible to copy and paste an SVG image* from a web page into a > word processing application? if so which one, and does it print well? Given that Microsoft seem to be ignoring SVG (possibly because of the heavy involvement by Adobe) and Netscape and Amaya use internal renderers for SVG, I suspect that the answer is no, at least for Windows. What you are most likely to be able to do is to save the SVG and run it through some form of SVG to Windows Meta File convertor. Microsoft may have one, but I think that is commercially rather unlikely; they don't, for example, allow the the import of XFIG diagrams, the Unix free software standard, nor PostScript, except as uninterpreted PostScript to be regurgitated to a PostScript printer. There is a free tool that will convert between vector formats, but the last time I used it, it didn't create very good Windows Metafiles. It may have improved since. I don't know if it has improved and I can't remember the name at the moment, although it is bundled with gsview. You can always use object packager to include the uninterpreted image for viewing with an SVG viewer. In the case of the use of the Adobe plugin for Windows, any word processor that could handle web browser plugins could render the image embedded. I'm not sure if the latest Microsoft Wordprocessors are that well integrated with the latest Microsoft web browsers. You may find that some of the free Unix wordprocessors are moving towards using SVG as their native vector image format. > If the whole page is a single SVG, is it possible to do the same to an > individual image that forms part of the page? Define an image; SVG is a whole hierarchy of sub-images. In any case, this is an implementation issue, so depends very strongly on the tool you use to render the SVG. In the general case, you would need to convert to an editable vector format or use an SVG editor, and export in a supported format. Like a lot of your questions, this is not about technology but about commercial decisions. When you go beyond simple bitmaps, mixing proprietory tools with competing free or semi-proprietory ones is always going to be a problem. At the moment, it wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft are hoping that SVG will die.
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