On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Martin Gruner wrote: > > IMHO, PNG support along with PS or PDF support would be wonderful. PNG is > > great for pictures and the like, and PS is great for scalable maps and > > diagrams. It would work to our advantage to support multiple formats, > > methinks. > > > As Daniel already pointed out, this aint gonna happen until somebody goes > ahead and takes charge of it.
To comment on both messages, I don't think anyone should take charge of handling specific graphic format decoders/rasterizers or anything of that sort. I think we need to move towards simply using good HTML renderers as displays. GnomeSword & BibleTime probably already support much of the functionality we should strive for. Regarding formats, we should probably support PNG, JPEG, and SVG. I don't feel PDF is particularly well suited to this task and I don't think we should be incorporating PDF decoders in Sword. Mozilla supports all three natively, so incorporating Mozilla as a control would be a good move, IMO. Shortly, I'm going to begin some more serious work at doing this for BibleCS because I would like to see us be able to use Graphite for rendering (at least of Bibles) in the near term. (Another task for my 3-week vacation from school, I guess.) --Chris
