Subject: Re: Equations with Abiword
From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Jan 12 2002 - 08:20:02 CST
> > talking of which, is there some image-format supported by abi
> > which stores line-strokes instead of bitmaps? it would save a
> > lot of space if the equations could get converted into such
> > an image-format. are there thoughts in that direction? in
> > other word-processors there is usually a built-in editor with
> > proprietary image-formats (i.e. not all do use .wmf drawings).
> > what will abi support for line-drawing, and when?
>
> This is the "Vector Graphics" support we all want. The plan is to have
> internal vector graphics support via the W3C Structured Vector Graphics
> (SVG) standard.
Once 1.0 is out the door, I'm going to start working on SVG support, and
quite possibly MathML support as well.
Martin, we'll probably need to have a long talk about object linking &
embedding etc. sometime...
Frank
Francis James Franklin
F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
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wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.
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