SVG anyone?

[Carl Parrish]

Honestly as of right now I'm not sure there are any. As I said before
libart already has svg support. What I was asking was were there any
plans to use a tool such as libart which would use svg to create the
reports. I don't know guppi don't know if it has svg support or ever
intends to have svg support. I know that when I'm programming dynamic
graphs svg if very handy. And thought that since it looks like gnucash
uses xml pretty extensively anyways and I'm sure there must be some sort
of xslt styles there somewhere, creating SVG reports become trivial. Oh
and microsoft has annonunced that MS Money will support SVG so I assume
that if gnucash did as well it would be easier (though with M$ you never
know) to import / export. to MS Money. (haven't heard quickens position
on it so far). 

Carl P. 

 


On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 15:32, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> OK,
> 
> But what are the advantages for *gnucash*, specifically?
> We can already create graphs and charts, and print them,
> with guppi (love it or hate it).  So wouldn't it be more
> appropriate to add SVG to guppi (and/or gtkplot, scigraphica,
> or one of the other graphing packages?)
> 
> --linas
> 
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:37:09PM -0700, Carl Parrish was heard to remark:
> > > What's SVG, and why would we want to use it? what are the
> > > advantages/benefits that it would offer?
> > > 
> > > --linas
> > 
> > Sorry SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics it is an XML language for
> > describing sophisticated 2-dimensional graphics. 
> > >From the mozilla.org website
> > <mozilla.org>
> > 
> > SVG is similar in scope to Macromedia's proprietary Flash technology:
> > among other things it offers anti-aliased rendering, pattern and
> > gradient fills, sophisticated filter-effects, clipping to arbitrary
> > paths, text and animations. What distinguishes SVG from Flash, is that
> > it is a W3 recommendation (i.e. a standard for all intents and purposes)
> > and that it is XML-based as opposed to a closed binary format. It is
> > explicitly designed to work with other W3C Standards such as CSS, DOM
> > and SMIL. 
> > 
> > </mozilla.org>
> > 
> > 
> > SVG inherents all the advantages that any other vector graphics would
> > have however since its xml you can easily use xslt or any other xml
> > tools to convert from xml data to svg images. For programming this make
> > it *much* easier to create custom and dynamic graphs.So far in looking
> > though the developers docs it seems that a lot of xml is used and also
> > that there is a desire to have the reports in html format. (I freely
> > admit to not having gotten far in the docs yet). Since SVG was created
> > to work with xml and the web it seems (to me) that it would be the
> > natural format to use for the images. Creating tools for users to make
> > custom reports would be quite easy. Mozilla uses libart for its SVG
> > support but I'm sure there are other opensource projects we could add in
> > if libart's license is a problem (LGPL I believe). 
> >   
> > Some places to view demos would be 
> > http://www.wpsenergy.com/JayNick/
> > http://www.adobe.com/svg/
> > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/
> > http://www.pinkjuice.com/svg/
> > 
> > The W3C.org page
> > http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Overview.htm8
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Carl Parrish <cparrish@pcl-enterprises.com>
> > PCL Enterprises
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