Re: Word attachment...on linuxtoday

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux <tnt linux ca>]

Hello,

On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 08:46, Joe Shaw wrote:
> [ 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.

I looked at librsvg before, but as I understand it, it renders an SVG
document into a static pixmap image.  So it is insufficient because I
need something dynamic.  (That I can do animations with.)

See ya

     Charles Iliya Krempeaux
     tnt @ linux.ca
     ckrempea @ alumni.sfu.ca