[therion] SVG output from therion

John Pybus john at pybus.org
Tue Jan 25 02:19:56 CET 2005


Martin Budaj wrote:

>> Looking at the 0.3.5 sources I'd originally though that the output of
>> metapost was used by pdftex, but I see that you parse the PS and write
>> your own pdf fragments.  Since SVG uses exactly same rendering model as
>> pdf it should be easy enough to adapt this to produce SVG fragments
>> also.  With these, replacing pdftex for the job of stitching the
>> fragments together into a map should be feasible.
>
>
> Yes, SVG is planned to be implemented in about a month. The PostScript
> parsing needs to be enhanced a bit (some simplifications were takan
> because of similarity of PS and PDF). The idea is to get only map in SVG
> (and other formats), leaving the Atlas for PDF.


Sounds good news.  Does this mean that it's not worth me trying to do any work on this myself, or that you'd appreciate any start I make before you get round to it?

> We don't use online CVS repository -- I would have no possibility to
> access it. We used to put the development tarball on the web page every
> week or so, but that led only to confusion.


Fair enough.  Perhaps if it's not on the downloads page but a separate developers page it wouldn't be a cause of confusion.

John





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