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SVG Import

OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta2 is in preparation and feature freeze was some time ago. At the same time we see great progress on a long-standing feature request. Berhard Haumacher (haui) worked on SVG Import for OpenOffice.org. This is on of the most wanted (voted) issue in our bugtracking system IssueTracker.

The converter from Scalable Vector Format (SVG) to OpenDocument Format is implemented as an UNO component. It accomplishes the SVG to OpenDocument translation using services from the Apache Batik SVG Toolkit. After the easy installation you are able to open SVG graphics as Draw files. During import the SVG graphic is translated into OpenDocument graphics primitives that can be displayed and edited with OpenOffice.org Draw.

Bernhard prepared valuable information about requirements, installation, bugs and features of the SVG Import component similar to OOo specifications. The zip file is available for download and test from there too. He initiated the technical discussion at the developer's list of the graphics project and invites you to participate.

Kudos to Bernhard.

If you know of other striking work on OpenOffice.org, please let me know.

Posted at 05:22PM Aug 16, 2005 by Stefan Taxhet in OpenOffice.org  |