Re: [Lib2geom-devel] 2geom + inkscape!

[Aaron S. <aa...@ek...>]

J.B...@ew... wrote:
> Although I was not able to build 2geom on my Windows, Aaron Spike
> gave me a distribution build that I was able to link in with
> Inkscape: it is now possible to use 2geom from Inkscape code! (please
> know that I did not test things on Linux..., I also just tested
> briefly so I am not confident that 'all' works. It did seem a bit
> 'too easy' to link the two together.)

Linking together should be pretty easy, I think. I can help you get the
linking working on Linux.

> I found some functions that read path data from a file (I think in
> SVG format?), but not from a string. This makes interfacing with
> Inkscape troublesome. Therefore, could you please add a function that
> converts an Inkscape-datatype to 2geom? I.e. from Glib::ustring with
> an SVG path string to Geom::Path 

This would create a dep in 2geom on glib, not sure we want to do that. I
think we will need a 2geom equivalent of splivator.cpp where functions
that connect 2geom to inkscape live. There are at least two starts at
providing this functionality. Mike wrote the read svgd from a file that
you mentioned and Mental started work on a somewhat more robust
framework for solving this problem. I'm not sure what the status of
either of those efforts is. Mental, can you comment?

> (btw, as I do most of my devel on windows without gaim, i can't join
> the 2geom jabber channel. maybe you can use inkscape's ^- bot as a
> bridge between an irc channel?)

Why don't you have gaim on windows?


Aaron Spike