svg development

Ok guys how do we get Xara to develop the svg filter for XaraLX. Failing that how do we go about getting one of the distro's to develop the svg filters.
It seems we can live without a lot of stuff in XaraLX but, not svg so how do we overcome this. Are there any organisations like the Linux Foundation etc who may be willing to fund (money talks bulls**t walks) development on the svg filter. If we had the svg filter working it would increase XaraLX use many fold which in turn might bring in some development from the open-source community. I know it's a bit of a chicken and egg scenario but it seems to be true as far as XaraLX goes.

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Originally Posted by Dai

Ok guys how do we get Xara to develop the svg filter for XaraLX. Failing that how do we go about getting one of the distro's to develop the svg filters.
It seems we can live without a lot of stuff in XaraLX but, not svg so how do we overcome this. Are there any organisations like the Linux Foundation etc who may be willing to fund (money talks bulls**t walks) development on the svg filter. If we had the svg filter working it would increase XaraLX use many fold which in turn might bring in some development from the open-source community. I know it's a bit of a chicken and egg scenario but it seems to be true as far as XaraLX goes.

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Dai - even though this topic is more or less flame bait(!), it is worth
repeating some of the answers that have been posted in this forum.
Really, SVG is not central to XaraLX at all, and this is why developers
seem like they could give a hoot about it... xara and xaralx arent built
around the SVG format, but invented their own scalable format, *.xar...
this is one of the best answers I ever saw when I asked the same question.
We need to get used to working with the very full featured *xar format...
and then... when we are all done... if we really need SVG, it is easy
enough to convert, via the fully working postscript output which XaraLX
also supports.
Your comment about increasing user base is maybe true, but your
argument for this is again, if we could change xaralx to an SVG editor,
then, wed have this greatly expanded user base... but it just isnt written
as an SVG editor... so... yes... if xara was more or less scrapped, and
then rewritten as an SVG editor, it might attract that crowd.

I just dont see a big effort in this direction happening for the free version however. As I replied to another user question on this forum, in fact,
xaralx already has fairly extensive SVG support working... the import
function does work... and, using pstoedit, we have very fast conversion
from postscript to SVG... what more do we really need than SVG in and SVG out ? Ive been using these tools for quite some time and couldnt be
happier... well... sure, Id love it if somebody ever got SVG import/export
fully working from xaralx itself... but we have these functions now if you
just do a little work.

cheers

I can only speak for my self as a user of Scribus I would like to see a better svg conversion that works with scribus. Like you say it's not an svg editor but, a lot of Linux programmes work with svg and not .xar and since XaraLX is intended for the linux market/users it does need better svg capabilities.

Failing that a huge increase in XaraLX users so the linux community adopt .xar format in there programmes.