Re: SVG display in Debian
On March 25, 2004 05:55 am, Peter Samek wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:22:53PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > I just read an interesting article about Scalable Vector Graphics
> > (SVG) support in Linux and started visiting a few websites with SVG
> > content to try it out. I'm running KDE 3.2.1 from unstable which
> > should have SVG support through ksvg (which I have installed) but
> > Konqueror just displays a blank page for .svg files. Then I heard
> > that mozilla has svg support but it does the same thing (blank page
> > instead of the graphic). Then I noticed that nothing is displayed in
> > the SVG icon themes for KDE. Just blank where the icon is supposed to
> > be. I started Gnome which has an independent SVG implementation based
> > on librsvg (which I also have installed) but nothing works there
> > either. SVG icons just won't display.
> >
> > So this seems to be an underlying issue affecting all the SVG
> > implementations rather than a bug specific to one of them. Anyone
> > encountered something like this before? Any help is much appreciated.
>
> Yeah, I did wonder today, too.
>
> I tried it in Konqueror, but could not see any pictures. But if I used
> svgdisplay, then the picture was shown. And if I was in a directory
> in Konqueror and held the mouse pointer over an icon, then I saw a small
> preview of the svg image.
>
> As you can read at http://www.croczilla.com/svg/ "Standard Mozilla
> builds are not yet SVG-enabled by default."
Ok Thank you. In that case it really is either a KDE bug or a problem with
the KSVG package. I'll look further into this.
~leo
>
> Either it does not work out-of-the-box, or there is a problem in the
> integration with other components.
>
> Peter
>
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