[libreoffice-users] Re: SVG embedding in LibreOffice

Am 07.06.2011, 10:32 Uhr, schrieb plino <pedlino@gmail.com>:

> Actually I am almost sure LibreOffice added that feature first
>
> http://www.libreoffice.org/download/new-features-and-fixes/

This is not the feature I was talking about, although it does sound  
similar. The difference is discussed at length in the OOo issue I linked  
to.

Short version: The LO feature is an import filter that tries to translate  
svgs into draw objects. Which is nice, but if you look close enough at the  
screenshot you see the difference: No blurring, only simple colour  
gradients and so on.
That's because draw can only do a small subset of the svg specification  
(which is completely okay, it's office software)

But for the purpose I'm talking about, this is not necessary, which is  
embedding. I can embed PNGs, JPGs, to a degree also vektor formats like  
EPS and EMF, but the latter are not always shown cleanly.
Now, since 3.4 beta, OOo can actually embed SVG images. So I can treat  
them just like any other image and not worry about scaling styles and/or  
fonts, and whether draw supports layered, blurred transparency gradients  
with variable linewidth.


I haven't got the developer version of LO, but the last release still  
tries to import SVGs, and I could not find any entry about the topic in  
the bug list.




  Zak


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