Re: Gnumeric, vectorial drawings (and charts)

[Jean Brefort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Le mercredi 10 août 2011 à 16:48 +0200, Emmanuel Pacaud a écrit :
> Le mercredi 10 août 2011 à 16:38 +0200, Emmanuel Pacaud a écrit :
> > >  This would also work for wmf files
> > > (Valek wrote some demo code in goffice in mf-demo.c) and might be
> > > extended to emf which we do not support at all for now (as far as I
> > > know). I suppose that OpenDocument graphics (odg) would be a valuable
> > > target too.
> >
> > My take would be to convert wmf or odg to svg and use the best svg
> > library available (librsvg currently) for the rendering.
>
> I want to add that lasem is not that bad compared to librsvg.
>
> It doesn't support filters and css styling, and text support is poorer
> than in librsvg (which is already quite poor).
>
> But it's faster and use less memory, and has a DOM API (which open the
> possibility of editing capabilities).

I don't think that gnumeric should become a drawing tool.

> Both have the same low level of development activity.

This is my concern.

Jean