Initial work on a Karbon CDR import filter

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2012, 17:14:06 schrieb Thorsten Zachmann:
> On Saturday, January 28, 2012 16:24:16 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > Hi Thorsten,
> > 
> > Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2012, 05:03:23 schrieb Thorsten Zachmann:
> > > > Some questions:
> > > > Initially I tried to create directly a KarbonDocument object,
> > > > not
> > > > another
> > > > SVG file. But then I found out that shapes like e.g. Rectangle
> > > > and
> > > > Ellipsis are only provided by factories from plugins, so I
> > > > cannot
> > > > create them directly from code, is that correct? Do I really
> > > > have to
> > > > instead create a SVG file as output?
> > > 
> > > The filters work mostly by converting one file format into a native
> > > file format of calligra. In case of Karbon native file formats are
> > > odg and svg. This has some benefits as it allows e.g. filter
> > > chaining. And that is the prefered way of implementing a filter.
> > > However it is also possible to do it differently but that means you
> > > need to link against the shapes code which is not nice.
> > 
> > And not possible here, as e.g. the API/symbols of the rectangle and
> > ellipsis shapes are not exported from the plugin.
> 
> Yes it is not possible to use the API that is why I said you need to include
> the code into your own code and compile it there once more. That is what
> the svg filter did before karbon got native svg support.

Ah, okay, was not clear to me from your first reply, thanks for clarifying :)

Friedrich