On 3/9/07, Chris Mohler <cr33dog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've stumbled across a SVG importer for OO, but it appears to require > Java 5 (aka jre 1.5 a la Sun). This page has links to the importer > and bugs related to SVG and OO: > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SVG_Import_Filter In case anyone is interested, the SVG importer seemes to work with Java 6 (aka jre 1.6) on FC6. The bin+rpm installs into /usr/java. One must then go into the options of OO, select "Java" and pick the new JRE. (fairly painless) After that, one can open this test svg file (a psuedo-benchmark) in OO: http://www.linuxrising.org/importsvg/gearflowers.svg And it will look like the this - a *vast* improvement over any other method of importing that I've tried: http://cr33.is-a-geek.com/random/Screenshot.png OO will then open the example SVG provided by PS earlier in the thread [1], but the main problem seems to be that paths in OO are not smoothed (aka antialiased) at all. Lest we despair, work is being done to convert the drawing functions in OO over to cairo and XCanvas: http://blogs.sun.com/thorsten/entry/first_impression_draw_on_cairocanvas Something to look forward to, at least. Chris [1] Text must be converted to a path in Inkscape before it will open correctly in OO.
Thanks, Chris. Yes, the the conversions with the SVG_Import_Filter loose the smoothness of the paths. Paul
