Re: Sodipodi can be seen from Gnumeric!

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com>]

> Yes! For the first time I managed to get sodipodi shaped image visible
> from Gnumeric. The score is 50:50, i.e. they both crash almost equally :)

WOW!  This is pretty amazing.  Can you give us the recipe to try this
out?

> To get this done, I created a translator group, which translates xlib
> canvas ::draw methods to aa canvas ::render methods. 

Isn't this supposed to be the other way around?

> Currently sodipodi
> does not support xlib rendering and I'm not sure if it ever will, as
> rendering complex bezier paths to drawables is usually much slower than
> stroking these by hand.

Yeah.  Your approach sounds like a good thing.

Michael Meeks has also been working on some interesting things, you
can see Gnumeric printing embedded components here:

http://www.gnome.org/~michael/gnumeric-print.jpeg

> As extra bonus you can see full-alpha images on top of spreadsheet...

I am drooling.  How can I get this working?

miguel.