Re: Is there a future for EPS vector graphics in LO ?

On 23/05/2012 13:08, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Fernand,
>
>         Please CC the developer list :-)
>
> On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 12:12 +0200, Fernand Vanrie wrote:
> > Thanks for your interest, but i need some answers:
>         Sure.
>
> > Will EPS in the future been exported as Vector Graphics ?
>         I know of no-one working on it; but it's a nicely self-contained task
> to work on - writing an EPS import filter that would convert that to an
> ODF graphic.
>
> > > > SVG still problematic when exported to PDF.
> > >         Right; I suspect it depends on how it is imported, whether as vectors,
> > > or as higher-res bitmaps (for embedded objects).
> > i just "inserted" the famous Pingouin in a writer doc,  neither LO 3.5
> > and neither OO  3.4 do a correct export to pdf.
>         The SVG work is ongoing. If you insert an object in writer oyu will get
> a bitmap, if you load it in draw then paste it in you'll get an editable
> vector graphic; as/when we get the vector mode really good we'll drop
> the bitmap mode.
>
> > >         I guess someone else would want to chip in here - but really, the best
> > > place to ask is the users-list - this is not a development related
> > > question about a code contribution.
> > Sorry, i hoped to find here a developer to produce the code ? and we are
> > candidate to sponsor this effort
>         Ah - so if you want to contract someone to do the work; it's good to
> mention that :-) I guess there are prolly two things you could ask for -
> you could (perhaps) use the WMF preview mode of EPS, and (if we don't
> already) make the support for that work nicely in LibreOffice - that may
> be a producer-side problem. You could also get an EPS ->  ODF import
> filter, which shouldn't be impossibly hard to get something quite
> useful. I'd poke Lanedo, Credativ, Collabora, Codethink - that sort of
> consultancy for a price - or perhaps someone here would like to jump on
> that :-) I'd suggest thinking in the order of $10k+ - what is your
my budget is more 1k+ oriented :-)
> budget ?
>
> > >         Either way sorry for the hassle; the hope is that the SVG rendering
> > > will eventually get good enough that it will provide a good solution
> > > here.
> > Will that been possible in the near Future ?
>         Nearness is affected only by the level of investment ;-) but in the
> next six months I think it's unlikely.
>
>         All the best,
>
>                 Michael.