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Subject: Fwd: RE: oodraw
I'm not sure I will be able to attend today's meeting, so here is the list of issues about the draw objects in the file format, from the KOffice developer who works on the vector drawing application. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: RE: oodraw Date: Sunday 04 May 2003 21:41 From: "rwlbuis@xs4all.nl" <rwlbuis@xs4all.nl> To: dfaure@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se, buis@kde.org Hi, After having thought about it some more, my remarks. First of all I like svg a lot, and I am glad svg was chosen as a basis for oo draw format. Secondly, I also like the way the styling is shared and seperated from the content. Karbon has a different approach to this, but I think the oo draw approach is superior and we will happily have a go of implementing/adotopting this in karbon14. Now, about the gripes : - I think gradients could be made more adaptable. For instance allowing definitions of stops like in svg using the <stop> tag. Karbon has support for complex gradients with many stops as well. I have no complaints about chosen gradient types, these seem to be the most useful and common. - I am not sure whether <layer> tag explictly has attributes to set state to locked/unlocked, visible/invisible? Karbon format offers this. - it would be desirable for the format to allow stacking of multiple strokes per shape. Illustrator can do this and karbon has code in the making for this. - not sure if its included, but a way to define clip groups/regions would be desirable as well. These are my main gripes. In general I must say I like the format and documentation a lot (though some more code and accomanying pictures would help, like in svg spec). All in all I think its a job well done, thank you for that! Cheers, Rob. ------------------------------------------------------- -- David FAURE, faure@kde.org, sponsored by TrollTech to work on KDE, Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org). How to write a Makefile.am for KDE/Qt code: http://developer.kde.org/documentation/other/makefile_am_howto.html
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