Re: Why gnome-office needs libSVG

[Martin Sevior <msevior mccubbin ph unimelb edu au>]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Joe Shaw wrote:

> > 	    I think gnome needs a libSVG to render SVG graphics onto a
> > variety of backends the way gnome-print renders to postscript and PDF.
> > 
> > I think that code for rendering SVG graphics is scattered around the gnome
> > project. It would be in everyone's interest for this code to be
> > collected into a libSVG which would be employed by all gnome-office apps.
> 
> Actually, I think it's all in librsvg in GNOME CVS, with maybe some of it
> in Nautilus (which is the only thing that uses it right now). Raph did it
> a while back for the Nautilus vector icons. I haven't looked at it, but it
> should be workable.
> 

Thanks Joe and Johnathon,
			I'll investigate librsvg.

Cheers

Martin