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Subject: Re: [office] Open Office File Format / Graphics / Draw
Hi all, I'm a bit late on this one... :-) David Faure wrote: >From: Dirk Schönberger <dirk.schoenberger@sz-online.de> >My current work included some work on a import filter for Adobe Illustrator files into KOffice / Karbon. >The import filter (written in ruby) tries to transfer the data structures from Adobe >Illustrator into a XML like syntax, using a SAX like filter. This allows me >to define and extend my own dataformat, as I see fit. The idea is currently >not to implement a given file format (Karbon, OpenOffice draw or the like), >but instead model the full feature set of Adobe Illustrator until version 8. > >I have uploaded some sample documents, you may find it at >http://www.angelfire.com/realm/dschon/fillrule.xml >http://www.angelfire.com/realm/dschon/almeria2_corel.xml >http://www.angelfire.com/realm/dschon/logo.xml > Nice, and I think this is definitely worth a look for phase 2. Just some comments: - The main part of the data appeared to be stroke paths, which are constructed by path elements rather than the mangled path expressions we copied from SVG. I like that a little better, but would still vote for the SVG syntax for commonality reasons. :-) - There appeared to be some new stuff e.g. for gradients. However, I couldn't make too much sense of it, since it contained some binary-type data. Since we had previously agreed to approach SVG on gradients, it might make sense to see how such functionality maps to our SVG proposal. - I found it a little odd that some samples contained code which was distinctly PostScrip-ish. I wonder whether that's a relict of an incomplete XML-ization of the source files, or wether that's embedded graphics more akin to embedded .jpg in our format. Sincerely, Daniel
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