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

Zak.

On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 03:43 +0200, Zak McKracken wrote:

> > 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 :)

   I was able to both pages without any problems using Linux and Opera.
I have not had major problems with microsoft.com in Linux when I had to
visit it

> 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



-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com

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