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SVG Import Filter for OpenOffice 2.0

Some cool developers have written a component that lets you open SVG files in OpenOffice.

It’s a very cool program, though not quite finished. The page above lists some caveats, including: “During import, the SVG graphic is translated into OpenDocument graphics primitives that can be displayed and edited with OpenOffice Draw. This transformation uses services from the Apache batik SVG engine. The filter produces nearly perfect results for simple SVGs. However, color and transparency gradients are still problematic (due to deficiencies in the current OpenOffice.org implementation of OpenDocument)…”

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