Re: Word attachment...on linuxtoday

[Joe Shaw <joe ximian com>]

[ Apologies, I haven't been reading the whole thread... -j ]

On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 09:40, Michael Meeks wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 19:22, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
> > Is the sodipodi engine separated out into a library?  (And if so, then
> > are there any docs about using it... besides the source?)
> 
> 	No - read the source; check the module out from CVS, and hack wildly at
> it; if you want a library - make it a library; quite why you'd want to
> make it a library I know not. Mostly people dislike dependencies in
> libraries, and sodipodi is a relatively sane project that doesn't
> re-invent the wheel (badly) before achieving it's goals, and thus has a
> number of Gnome dependencies.

There also exists the librsvg library, which is used by Nautilus, which
takes SVG files/descriptions and renders them into GdkPixbufs, so that
might be more up your alley if you're looking for a library.

Joe