OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

  • 1.  Fwd: RE: oodraw

    Posted 05-05-2003 11:24
    I'm not sure I will be able to attend today's meeting, so here is the
    list of issues about the draw objects in the file format, from the KOffice 
    developer who works on the vector drawing application.
    
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    Subject: RE: oodraw
    Date: Sunday 04 May 2003 21:41
    From: "rwlbuis@xs4all.nl" <rwlbuis@xs4all.nl>
    To: dfaure@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se, buis@kde.org
    
    Hi, 
     
    After having thought about it some more, my remarks. 
    First of all I like svg a lot, and I am glad svg was chosen as 
    a basis for oo draw format. 
     
    Secondly, I also like the way the styling is shared and seperated from the
    content. 
    Karbon has a different approach to this, but I think the oo draw approach
    is superior and we 
    will happily have a go of implementing/adotopting this in karbon14. 
     
    Now, about the gripes : 
     
    - I think gradients could be made more adaptable. For instance allowing
    definitions 
    of stops like in svg using the <stop> tag. Karbon has support for complex
    gradients with 
    many stops as well. I have no complaints about chosen gradient types, these
    seem to be 
    the most useful and common. 
     
    - I am not sure whether <layer> tag explictly has attributes to set state
    to locked/unlocked, 
    visible/invisible? Karbon format offers this. 
     
    - it would be desirable for the format to allow stacking of multiple
    strokes per shape. 
    Illustrator can do this and karbon has code in the making for this. 
     
    - not sure if its included, but a way to define clip groups/regions would
    be desirable as well. 
     
    These are my main gripes. In general I must say I like the format and
    documentation a lot 
    (though some more code and accomanying pictures would help, like in svg
    spec). All in all I 
    think its a job well done, thank you for that! 
    Cheers, 
     
    Rob. 
     
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