[Kde-graphics-devel] SVG in Qt4

[Lars Knoll]

On Thursday 16 December 2004 23:05, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2004 22:03, schrieb Cyrille Berger:
> > > - Qt4 support - QPainter 4 (the Arthur engine) should be slightly
> > > better suited for SVG like rendering, but from what I know, SVG support
> > > from Qt is not yet scheduled.
> >
> > From : http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/whatsnew.html
> > I read : "Quartz and QuickDraw under Mac OS X, Xlib under X11, GDI under
> > Windows, as well as PostScript, SVG, GDI+, and OpenGL, are examples of
> > technologies that Arthur is expected to support---with the possibility of
> > adding Cairo, and PDF support later."
>
> I rather understand this that Arthur is able to export to/use these
> painting frameworks, rather than to interpret and execute them. E.g. you
> can draw into svg format, but not have Arthur display some SVG file. Or is
> it me whose english is worse? :P

Clearing this up. Arthur as we have it currently will not contain a full 
featured SVG renderer. We're looking into adding one, but this won't happen 
for 4.0.

Cheers,
Lars