On 12/01/2008, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
We've been tossing about the idea of using Inkscape simply for compatibility's sake -- since a lot of people are creating their files in Inkscape, having librsvg bugs muck up the display's a bit annoying.
Inkscape's half the speed and uses a lot more memory. Better to ascertain and report bugs in rsvg if at all possible. (I realise the security patch thing's a PITA as well.)
Batik, OTOH, is poo as far as I can tell. Fat, slow and Java craps out at random. Perfect results except the 1% of failures to render.
- d.