[sword-devel] Interested in? Graphics

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On Tuesday 22 April 2003 12:42 pm, Victor Porton wrote:
> IMO, it should be done by porting Xpdf code to non-X11 systems. (We can
> port Xpdf's engine to Windows etc. and then use it as rendering engine. By
> the way we can make Xpdf port which is a useful deal by itself.)

As already mentioned PDF isn't extremely useful for sword except for maybe 
printing. The main problem for me with using PDF's or PostScript files as 
modules for images and maps is the lack of interactivity. You can't afaict 
use PS/PDF to link locations on a map to modules or more detailed maps, or 
anything else useful like that. I think SVG or a map-centric similar method 
is a good way to go since it's an XML based standard and a large number of 
our other modules are XML based (and all once we get things OSIS converted) 
so things work in a cohesive manner without having to reinvent the wheel 
every time we think up a new format.

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