Re: [Libreoffice] [GSoC 2011][svg export filter] GSoC project start

On Mon, 21 May 2012 12:45:37 +0200, Christian Lohmaier  
<lohmaier+libreoffice@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi Marco,
>
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Marco Cecchetti <mrcekets@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> > Hi Thorsten, everyone,
> > so it's time to start working on the project. :)
> >
> > I pushed a new feature branch named feature/svg-export,
> > where I'll commit all contributions I 'm going to provide
> > on GSoC time-frame.
>
> Shameless abuse of your thread, but related:
> Please rething your decision about having the browser scale svg being
> more important than other tools processing the svg with the expected
> size.
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43060
>
> So please put
> * use coordinate system that all tools agree upon.
>
> As mentioned in the bug either use no units and convert to pixel, or
> specify size with units. I really think having it scaled in the
> browser is less important than not breaking other tools that run out
> of memory because they assume pixels.


Hi Christian,
I was not aware of this problem, anyway having a presentation
not resized automatically and placed top left is not really appealing.
For these reasons I take the following decision: export of page extents
with units is back but only when a single slide/page is exported.

Cheers,
-- Marco

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