[libreoffice-users] Re: Re: SVG embedding in LibreOffice

> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Arrows_bend.svg
>
> So if I understand you correctly, the blurred shadow is correctly
> imported in OOo.
>
> And here,
>
>   LibreOffice 3.3.2
>   OOO330m19 (Build:202)
>   tag libreoffice-3.3.2.2
>
> I get an unblurred arrow as the shadow.

Yes, that's it. I tested it under Windows XP, and it worked just fine.
> So it sounds like a good improvement, I wonder if it will be used in
> LibO. (It should be [legally] possible, unless they've already changed
> their license, right?)

According to the comments in the OOo Issue tracker it wasn't even very  
hard to do, although I cannot be the judge of that. But I guess there must  
be some GPL libraries out there that will do most of the work.

> > I think there's a general problem with office software and vector
> > graphics (not just in Open/LibreOffice), and the only package that
> > gets it  completely right to my knowledge is LaTeX, even though that
> > works only for  EPS.
>
> It is. Other examples: IIRC, MS Word (dunno about SVG support, but I
> doubt it has any), apart from the Windows and Enhanced MetaFile formats,
> only supports enhanced postscript, in the same way OOo and LibO do
> (actual rendering is relayed to printing).
>
> Someone trying to embed an EPS into MS Word:
> http://help.lockergnome.com/office/Importing-eps-files-Word--ftopict699269.html

> A list of supported formats and their limitations (in MS Word):
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290362/en-us

Oh, that's just great! The Microsoft website detects that I am running  
Linux and kindly disables the complete article, because it is not relevant  
for me. Way to go, guys! Good that my browser can just mask itself :)

Interesting to see that MS Word has the same problem with EPS as OOo. Only  
prints right on PS printers, otherwise only a preview image. I wonder if  
this is a principal problem with EPS, or whether OOo more or less copied  
the behaviour from word simply because it's easier to implement. I  
circumvent the Problem by printing to file, then using ps2pdf and then  
printing the PDF file wherever I want, but the downside is that ps2pdf  
automatically turns raster graphics into JPGs and reduces the resolution,  
so while keeping my EPS graphics alive it will reduce the printing quality  
of non-vector graphics, and this when the whole point was to get a good  
printing quality!
(Does anyone know a way to keep that from happening? the OO-internal pdf  
converter is even worse on embedded eps, but can preserve the raster  
images)

Zak


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