Squeak SVG?

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Mon Sep 24 10:12:29 UTC 2001


On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Bijan Parsia wrote:

> SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is now a W3C Recommendation:
> 	http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/
>
> 2-D graphics, animation, scripting, interactivity, etc. Prolly more than
> anyone wants and less than many need...
>
> (My pal Edd Dumbill chats it up in:
> 	http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/09/12/svg.html)
>
> Anyone interested in this as an inport/output format for Squeak? I imagine
> the Postscript framework could be extended to support writing this out. If
> Squeak rendered SVG files, it'd have a niche as a SVG plugin (Adobe has
> one).

Yep, I'm interested, although I can not spend any time on it ;-)

A fully conforming renderer implementation would be rather hard. though.
The SVG graphics model itself got way more complicated than we hoped for,
let alone all the fancy stuff ...

-- Bert





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