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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 01:29:28AM +0000, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Lukasz Stafiniak <address@hidden>wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 1:49 AM, David G. Wonnacott
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > I've had many problems with .svg files that don't have integer canvas
> > size.
> > > You might try checking document properties (e.g. in inkscape) and
> > rounding
> > > up and seeing of the problem persists.
> > > -- Dave W
> >
> > No that's not it. I wonder if anyone has thought about converting SVG
> > to TeXmacs drawings ("Draw image" / "Draw over selection")? For my
> > current small example I'll generate texmacs instead of svg source.
> 
> It would be better for texmacs to use SVG natively (and XML!)

Sure, if someone wants to complete the graphical markup of TeXmacs
so that we can directly import SVG, then that would be great.

However, all there are always to sides to the problem:
you do not only have to ensure that the rendering is done well inside TeXmacs,
but also that everything is exported as it should to Postscript / Pdf.
It is often the second problem which is the most difficult one.
For instance, TeXmacs supports alpha rendering, but I still do not
know how to generate the corresponding Postscript / Pdf.

> There are libraries to render SVG as a bitmap or to postscript too.

We are using such converters to postscript in order to render SVG images.

Best wishes, --Joris