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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVG plugin
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:52:01
Message-Id: 58965d8a0906150751l764bb634l693240b9c3963e8e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVG plugin by Kevin O'Gorman
1 On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
4 >>> On 06/15/2009 03:30 PM, Mick wrote:
5 >>>>
6 >>>> 2009/6/15 Florian Philipp<lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net>:
7 >>>>>
8 >>>>> Mick schrieb:
9 >>>>>>
10 >>>>>> Hi All,
11 >>>>>>
12 >>>>>> Trying to view a web page I produced some yonks ago, which at that the
13 >>>>>> time would utilise the Adobe SVG plugin to render a gantt chart. The
14 >>>>>> header of the file went like this:
15 >>>>>> =============================================
16 >>>>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
17 >>>>>> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 20000303 Stylable//EN"
18 >>>>>>
19 >>>>>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/03/WD-SVG-20000303/DTD/svg-20000303-stylable.dtd">
20 >>>>>> <svg xml:space="preserve" width="10in" height="8in"
21 >>>>>> style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:8">
22 >>>>>> =============================================
23 >>>>>>
24 >>>>>> Adobe seem to have abandoned further development. Any idea what I can
25 >>>>>> use to render such a graphic (image/svg+xml) in a browser?
26 >>>>>
27 >>>>> Firefox supports svg out of the box, now. Maybe you need the svg
28 >>>>> USE-flag for x11-libs/cairo.
29 >>>>
30 >>>> Hmm, mozilla-firefox does not have an svg flag. Anyway, I have svg in
31 >>>> my /etc/make.conf and also have cairo installed:
32 >>>>
33 >>>> [I] x11-libs/cairo
34 >>>>
35 >>>> Installed versions: 1.8.6-r1!t(18:54:43 03/17/09)(X glitz opengl
36 >>>> svg -cleartype -debug -directfb -doc -xcb)
37 >>>>
38 >>>> It's not just FF, but also Opera and Konqueror cannot render it either
39 >>>> and ask to download a plugin.
40 >>>
41 >>> The code in your webpage is probably wrong. You should just use a normal
42 >>> HTML header instead of this weird "<!DOCTYPE svg" thingy you're using now.
43 >>> Embed SVG images inside the page with a PNG fallback like this:
44 >>>
45 >>> <object data="URL_TO_YOUR.svg" type="image/svg+xml" height="PIXELS"
46 >>> width="PIXELS">
47 >>> <img src="URL_TO_YOUR.png" height="PIXELS" width="PIXELS">
48 >>> </object>
49 >>>
50 >>>
51 >>>
52 >>
53 >> I tried that Adobe site in FF on gentoo and ubuntu with the same
54 >> non-result. On Vista, I tried FF, Opera, Safari and IE 8, with varied
55 >> forms of failure. Interestingly, Opera at least offered to start
56 >> inkscape to view the image, which succeeded. The text on that image
57 >> suggested it's specific to an adobe plugin -- which it plugs of
58 >> course.
59 >>
60 >> Does somebody have a web page with SVGs that normal browsers with
61 >> non-proprietary plugins/viewers _can_ view?
62 >
63 > I looked a little further. I thought it interesting that Safari could
64 > also not view the Adobe SVG thingy. Moreover,
65 > http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/ shows they've dropped support
66 > for their viewer, and the most recent blurb promoting SVG relates to
67 > Illustrator CS2, when CS4 is the current version. I have CS4, but
68 > haven't learned to use it yet.
69 >
70 > Is there a future in SVG?
71
72 Also, in Firefox make sure SVG is enabled. Type "about:config" in the
73 URL bar and look for the "svg.enabled" option. Set it to "true" if it
74 is not already.

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