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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > PCL Enterprises -- pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
