February 2004
All I want to do is print my fucking graphics files at a
particular size on the fucking page. Nothing fancy. This image
at this position at this size. That image at that position at
that size.
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The answer to the question posed rhetorically in my previous
post is that Window’s overcomplicated printing system is
what lies between Adobe’s SVG viewer and Adobe’s
PostScript interpreter in my printer.
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Yesterday I spotted a modified hoarding on Cowley Road that
deserved recording, so today when we went out for lunch I took
my digital camera and some fresh batteries. They even lasted
long enough for me to take a few snaps of
early crocuses in the Oxford Botanical Garden.
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Good news, everyone! Mozilla now has a working SVG implementation
thanks to Alex Fritze of
croczilla.org. It even has suppport for plugging in
platform-specific back-ends so that in principle the Mac OS X
version might be able to exploit Quartz Extreme. Cool! This
could mean a working SVG-enabled release of Mozilla sometime
before I die of old age.
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I have belatedly updated my
note on using object
tags to display SVG to reflect my
having removed object
tags from the Alleged Tarot because Safari cannot cope with them..
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I hate discovering I've spend serious money on something
that turns out to be no good—such as my Samsung DigiMax V3
digital camera.
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