SVG images

MartinJ · Post by **MartinJ** » Thu May 23, 2019 3:08 am

hi,
I do not know how big a technical challenge it is - or if anyone but me uses it

- but it would be really great to be able to insert SVG-images in Atlantis Word.

best regards,
Martin

Post by **admin** » Fri May 24, 2019 10:34 am

I am not sure that MS Word documents (especially RTF and DOC) can contain SVG pictures.

Post by **Robert** » Fri May 24, 2019 11:28 am

Here is from Edit SVG images in Microsoft Office 365

Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel for Office 365 on Windows, Mac, Android and Windows Mobile support inserting and editing scalable vector graphics (.SVG) files in your documents, presentations, emails, and workbooks.
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This feature is available to Office 365 Subscribers only.

MartinJ · Post by **MartinJ** » Fri May 24, 2019 2:45 pm

admin wrote:I am not sure that MS Word documents (especially RTF and DOC) can contain SVG pictures.

I am sure you are right concerning doc and rtf, but I have tried it in LibreOffice Word and it works fine saving a docx with svg's.
And since Microsoft have started using it in Office 365 (but not yet their regular office) it is doable, just don't know how hard it is to implement.

Post by **admin** » Sat May 25, 2019 1:34 am

I am not sure that LibreOffice actually saves images to a DOCX file as SVG. As I understand, it converts SVGs to the PNG format when saving as DOCX.

MartinJ · Post by **MartinJ** » Sat May 25, 2019 2:59 am

admin wrote:I am not sure that LibreOffice actually saves images to a DOCX file as SVG. As I understand, it converts SVGs to the PNG format when saving as DOCX.

Oh that sounds very plausible, I haven't actually tried editing the svg image afterwards. If that's the case then I can just as well convert the svg myself before adding it. Now that I think about it, svg format is XML-based, so it makes sense that it doesn't work in doc/docx.

Post by **Robert** » Sat May 25, 2019 3:17 am

The DOCX format is an “XML-based” format.
Here is from Open XML Formats and file name extensions

Starting with the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Microsoft Office uses the XML-based file formats, such as .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx. These formats and file name extensions apply to Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint.

And here is from SVG is a W3C Recommendation

SVG is an open standard
SVG files are pure XML

MartinJ · Post by **MartinJ** » Sat May 25, 2019 3:21 am

Robert wrote:The DOCX format is an “XML-based” format.
Here is from Open XML Formats and file name extensions
Starting with the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Microsoft Office uses the XML-based file formats, such as .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx. These formats and file name extensions apply to Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint.
And here is from SVG is a W3C Recommendation
SVG is an open standard
SVG files are pure XML

Ok, then maybe it's not so far of as I thought. 🙂 I forgot that part about docx being based on xml. 👍