SVG in Konqueror

[James Richard Tyrer]

Dave Feustel wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 04:05:39PM -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>> Dave Feustel wrote:
>>> I've started learning about SVG as a result of finding out that SVG
>>> is (partially) supported in Konqueror. Animations and some other
>>> features do not seem to work yet. What is the current status of
>>> SVG support in KDE?
>>>
>> SVG support is KDE is based on SVG support in Qt.
>>
>> Note that I don't think that this is the best situation since much  
>> better SVG support is available in the Batik SVG toolkit (Apache).
> 
> Is the Batik SVG toolkit something I could use without
> installing/activating Apache?

Yes it is an independent package, however, it is written in Java.  This 
means that you can either use it with JNI (which is now [indirectly] a 
dependency for KDE4) or try to build it with GCJ (which may or may not 
work).
> 
> Thanks.
>