Re: Hello

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Fri, Mar 22, 2002, à 07:48:45AM +1100, David a écrit:
> 
>> Have you thought of using some of Sodipodi's features.
>> 
>> Maybe you could enable dia to call some of Sodipodi's functions to
>> provide functionality that dia doesn't. Gradients and some level of
>> vectorising spring to mind. Not sure how close your SVG capabilities are
>> to each other though..
[...]
> If/when someone writes a vectorising feature, the right approach would be
> to do that either as a standalone program outputting a standard format
> like SVG, or as a easily reuseable (Free) library. This would benefit
> both sodipodi and dia (and Kivio, and ...)

There seems to be such a program already, called KVEC
<URL:http://www.kvec.de/english>.  It will output SVG and a number of other
formats.  Enjoy!

-Lars

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