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From: Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVG plugin
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:31:06
Message-Id: 9acccfe50906150731k6a6c4dbh13823bdfa002e735@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: SVG plugin by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
2 > On 06/15/2009 03:30 PM, Mick wrote:
3 >>
4 >> 2009/6/15 Florian Philipp<lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net>:
5 >>>
6 >>> Mick schrieb:
7 >>>>
8 >>>> Hi All,
9 >>>>
10 >>>> Trying to view a web page I produced some yonks ago, which at that the
11 >>>> time would utilise the Adobe SVG plugin to render a gantt chart.  The
12 >>>> header of the file went like this:
13 >>>> =============================================
14 >>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
15 >>>> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 20000303 Stylable//EN"
16 >>>>
17 >>>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/03/WD-SVG-20000303/DTD/svg-20000303-stylable.dtd">
18 >>>> <svg xml:space="preserve" width="10in" height="8in"
19 >>>> style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:8">
20 >>>> =============================================
21 >>>>
22 >>>> Adobe seem to have abandoned further development.  Any idea what I can
23 >>>> use to render such a graphic (image/svg+xml) in a browser?
24 >>>
25 >>> Firefox supports svg out of the box, now. Maybe you need the svg
26 >>> USE-flag for x11-libs/cairo.
27 >>
28 >> Hmm, mozilla-firefox does not have an svg flag.  Anyway, I have svg in
29 >> my /etc/make.conf and also have cairo installed:
30 >>
31 >> [I] x11-libs/cairo
32 >>
33 >>      Installed versions:  1.8.6-r1!t(18:54:43 03/17/09)(X glitz opengl
34 >> svg -cleartype -debug -directfb -doc -xcb)
35 >>
36 >> It's not just FF, but also Opera and Konqueror cannot render it either
37 >> and ask to download a plugin.
38 >
39 > The code in your webpage is probably wrong.  You should just use a normal
40 > HTML header instead of this weird "<!DOCTYPE svg" thingy you're using now.
41 >  Embed SVG images inside the page with a PNG fallback like this:
42 >
43 > <object data="URL_TO_YOUR.svg" type="image/svg+xml" height="PIXELS"
44 > width="PIXELS">
45 >    <img src="URL_TO_YOUR.png" height="PIXELS" width="PIXELS">
46 > </object>
47 >
48 >
49 >
50
51 I tried that Adobe site in FF on gentoo and ubuntu with the same
52 non-result. On Vista, I tried FF, Opera, Safari and IE 8, with varied
53 forms of failure. Interestingly, Opera at least offered to start
54 inkscape to view the image, which succeeded. The text on that image
55 suggested it's specific to an adobe plugin -- which it plugs of
56 course.
57
58 Does somebody have a web page with SVGs that normal browsers with
59 non-proprietary plugins/viewers _can_ view?
60
61 --
62 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVG plugin Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVG plugin Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVG plugin Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>