Joao S. O. Bueno (gwidion@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Thanks to the native SVG support! :-)
I'd just like to point out, that most comments at slashdot are too
exaggerated (as usual). Let me get some facts straight:
1) The GIMP is not a SVG editing tool.
We can just render SVG files to images, the vector information
are lost, with the notable exception of Paths, which also lose
some information, since the SVG paths irreversibly get converted to
bezier paths.
2) The GIMP can not save complete images as SVG.
Only Bezier paths can be exported in an SVG with non-fancy default
options.
3) The GIMP does not really try to compete with Sodipodi.
Naturally there are points where the scope of the GIMP and Sodipodi
overlap, but right now we are only talking about a reimplementation
of a tool that has been in the GIMP for ages. IMHO it would be
feasible to have some features of Sodipodi in the GIMP also, but
it will be a long way.
4) The GIMP uses librsvg in the SVG-plugin for rendering the SVG.
In fact the Plugin originally was part of librsvg and got
adopted by Sven into the Gimp after talking with the librsvg
maintainer.
I hope that this can clean up some confusion from the comments.
Bye,
Simon
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