2008/9/15 Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.yu:

Brion Vibber wrote:

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http://codewideopen.blogspot.com/2008/09/inkscape-shell-patch.html (You'll find lots of examples of not-rendering-right files on our bugzilla -- search for SVG!)

See also http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pictures_showing_a_librsvg_bug

Interesting! See also my ad-hoc benchmarks at:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/SVG_benchmarks

From those I disrecommended Inkscape on Unix systems - the rendering

is good, but rsvg is twice as fast and uses much less memory. (On Windows, the fact that Inkscape comes in a standalone package makes it much easier to set up and use, and mediawiki-l has many happy users of Inkscape for SVGs on Windows.)

But rsvg is a library and Inkscape is a full application, so that would *plausibly* explain the overhead (I don't know if it's actually the case).

Obviously those will need rerunning with the Inkscape shell if anyone has a spare moment :-)

What's the quality of in-browser SVG rendering on Firefox 3.0 and 3.1? Looking at it casually, FF 3 betas did good rendering but weren't very fast. OTOH, sending the hard work to the client when you know it's up to the task is reasonable these days. I believe ordinary HTML <img src="something.svg" height=nn width=nn> works fine. (Haven't tried Safari, Chrome or Opera.)

- d.

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