Re: Dia + OO

[Richard Nelson <richard rhe co nz>]

Hi All!

Since both use XML, isn't this just a case of object model translation?

On Friday 02 November 2001 06:19, you wrote:
> On 1 Nov 2001, Sergey V. Udaltsov wrote:
> > Hi Vlad
> >
> > >  OO allows to insert .eps files too (but it doesn't display them - it
> > > just embeds the file when printing the document it's inserted in). Have
> > > you tried it?
> >
> > Yes but I just did not know OO is able to print images which it is not
> > able to show. I lived in WYSIWYG world for too long. So when I see
> > nothing instead of my image I just think OO is not able to understand
> > it:)
>
>  I agree that it's counter intuitive - but MSWord handles .eps files
> exactly the same way. An it's the only true way (though it may be easy for
> MS to implement it for MacOS X with its postscript-based display engine).
>
> > >  But IMO OO should implement support for importing of SVG ASAP - then
> > > everything will be as user friendly as you wish.
> >
> > I look forward to get the next version of OO for this...
>
>  It seems I was misunderstood. OO has no SVG import support, nor it's being
> developed AFAIK. This is too bad. There is no need to check next version of
> OO for presence of SVG import - it won't be there since it seems the work
> on it haven't been started yet.
>
>  Best regards,
>   -Vlad
>
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