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

Hi :)
In OpenOffice and LibreOffice the Export to Pdf option allows you to choose 
"lossless" compression or change the percentage of jpg compression.
Regards from
Tom :)





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From: Zak McKracken <zak_mckracken@openoffice.org>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Wed, 8 June, 2011 2:43:03
Subject: [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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