Hi all,
I'm a bit late on this one... :-)
David Faure wrote:
>From: Dirk Sch霵berger <>
>My current work included some work on a import filter for Adobe Illustrator files into KOffice / Karbon.
>The import filter (written in ruby) tries to transfer the data structures from Adobe
>Illustrator into a XML like syntax, using a SAX like filter. This allows me
>to define and extend my own dataformat, as I see fit. The idea is currently
>not to implement a given file format (Karbon, OpenOffice draw or the like),
>but instead model the full feature set of Adobe Illustrator until version 8.
>
>I have uploaded some sample documents, you may find it at
>http://www.angelfire.com/realm/dschon/fillrule.xml
>http://www.angelfire.com/realm/dschon/almeria2_corel.xml
>http://www.angelfire.com/realm/dschon/logo.xml
>
Nice, and I think this is definitely worth a look for phase 2.
Just some comments:
- The main part of the data appeared to be stroke paths, which are
constructed by path elements rather than the mangled path expressions we
copied from SVG. I like that a little better, but would still vote for
the SVG syntax for commonality reasons. :-)
- There appeared to be some new stuff e.g. for gradients. However, I
couldn't make too much sense of it, since it contained some binary-type
data. Since we had previously agreed to approach SVG on gradients, it
might make sense to see how such functionality maps to our SVG proposal.
- I found it a little odd that some samples contained code which was
distinctly PostScrip-ish. I wonder whether that's a relict of an
incomplete XML-ization of the source files, or wether that's embedded
graphics more akin to embedded .jpg in our format.
Sincerely,
Daniel
