On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 wrote Ben Greear:
> Alexander Larsson wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Ben Greear wrote:
> >
> > > So, is there any planned support for ARCs in the
> > > SVG syntax? (By ARC I mean the object that is under the 'T'
> > > icon.)
> >
> > I don't know, is there an ARC tag in SVG? You really have to ask james
> > about this, as shapes are his stuff. He should be back from vacation soon.
> >
> > But you can try using bezier curves to draw the cloud. That should work.
>
> I tried that, but couldn't get anything to look like I wanted it... I did notice
> that you can export a section (selected) to SVG, like I wanted to do. However,
> it uses an 'A' argument in the path description, which is almost certainly an
> arc.
>
> >
> > > Also, would it be possible to surround a portion of the canvas
> > > in a square/rectangle, and have that be saved as a shape, or
> > > some sort of library object that you could load through a menu
> > > and treat it as an individual entity?
> >
> > There is no such functionality right now, but you can export your drawing
> > to SVG and then manually edit the file into a shape (as shapes are pretty
> > close to SVG).
>
> That's plenty close enough for me, if only the shape code could handle ARCs.
I don't know when dia will support arcs; but i think it should
be possible to redraw the cloud based on arcs with bezier splines
; then export to svg and edit it manually to build a shape.
If you like, you can send me the dia file (only including the
cloud, please); i want to try it.
Jens
