Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: librsvg status?
From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 29 2001 - 06:32:12 CST
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> Last night on IRC, Martin and I were discussing the status of librsvg
> (from Nautilus/GNOME) and the possibilities of using it with AbiWord.
The last time I looked at librsvg it was very GNOME, which put me off.
> but it uses libart and FreeType (as Darin
> notes above) as the rendering backends to do that.
However, I quite like the idea of using libart and freetype to do a
cross-platform implementation.
I am of course biased, but I've been writing the UT_XML stuff with SVG
support in mind. No doubt there is a lot that can be learned/stolen/etc.
from librsvg but do we really need to make that explicit?
Regards, Frank
Francis James Franklin
F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
Deep in the human unconsciousness is a pervasive need for a logical
universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step
beyond logic.
--- from `The Sayings of Muad'dib' by the Princess Irulan
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