Bug 498590

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #478541 +++

Description of problem:
the openclipart package is svg only, but open office is not able to open svg’s for import them in a writer document to garnish an invitation of a sylvester party.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 10
openclipart 0.18
openoffice.org-writer 3.0.0

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install openclipart
2. Install openoffice.org-writer
3. try to insert a clipart into a writer document via "insert -> picture -> from file"
  
Actual results:
it's not possible

Expected results:
it should be possible

--- Additional comment from redhat-bugzilla on 2009-01-09 10:38:12 EDT ---

Caolan, what's the problem with "%configure --with-system-libsvg"? Okay, we
maybe need to BuildRequire libsvg2 or whatever it is. Without any explanation
this is NEVER closed upstream. Simon, please re-open the bug report again.

--- Additional comment from caolanm on 2009-01-09 10:50:15 EDT ---

"what's the problem with "%configure --with-system-libsvg"

there isn't any such option in vanilla

--- Additional comment from cassmodiah on 2009-01-09 11:05:19 EDT ---

This was my mistake.

I thought this is the solution, BUT I didn't realize that the parameter --with-system-libsvg is not for the SUN openoffice, but it is for the Novell openoffice called goo. To my surprise in other distros packages it is called openoffice.org-*, too. Sven Lankes told me that, to 

so the problem is, that sun's ooo is not able to handle svg. and i don't know if the problem will be solved in next versions.

perhaps one of this three solutions would solve this problem.

1.) generate a openclipart-png package
2.) enable svg support with an openoffice extension like this: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/SVGTiny2OO
3.) switch to go-oo (Novels ooo fork)

--- Additional comment from redhat-bugzilla on 2009-01-09 11:14:34 EDT ---

Novell OpenOffice.org fork? Hopefully they maintain and drive more QA to that 
office fork than to their SLE products...otherwise I'm not amused about go-oo.

--- Additional comment from cassmodiah on 2009-03-17 09:14:23 EDT ---

I had a talk with an ooo dev at the ooo booth on Chemnitzer Linux Days

Caolan, would you please pack this
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/svgimport
and activate it by default? (if possible, sorry but i don't know it, i'm just a packager in training!)

This would solve this problem and would be very cool :-)

--- Additional comment from caolanm on 2009-03-17 11:07:26 EDT ---

Let's have another look at this, I'm not delighted by the extension as we'd have to build it from source and its got a fairly big java dependency chain.

Maybe its worth selectively importing in the ooo-build svg importer

--- Additional comment from caolanm on 2009-03-18 08:42:06 EDT ---

Lets try that first, will be in >= 3.1.0-6.2.f11

--- Additional comment from cassmodiah on 2009-04-01 16:03:49 EDT ---

Created an attachment (id=337642)
ooo + svg

--- Additional comment from cassmodiah on 2009-04-01 16:06:23 EDT ---

the svg's are broken after import, please take a look at the attachment 337642 [details]

$ rpm -q openoffice.org-writer
openoffice.org-writer-3.1.0-8.1.fc11.x86_64

--- Additional comment from caolanm on 2009-04-01 17:50:13 EDT ---

That's then "doesn't import some svg's correctly" as opposed to "cannot import svgs", hopefully an improvement of sorts