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From: Dr Steve Sangwine <sjs@essex.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: SVG to PNG [was: Ada_Arrays Project]
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On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 21:43:45 +0000, Nick Roberts
<nick.roberts@acm.org> wrote:

>M?rio Amado Alves wrote:
>
>> I'm entertaining the idea of a generic package Ada_Arrays and children
>> where Ada_Arrays is like Ada.Strings except the element type is
>> generic instead of Character.
>> 
>> Anybody besides me foresees the great usefulness of Ada_Arrays?
>> Anybody did it?
....................
>
>Allow me to suggest an alternative project, which I believe has a gap in 
>the market at the moment, and could be commercially attractive.
>
..................
>I understand there are some Ada XML packages available (I'm not sure on 
>what terms), one of which could be used as a starting point for reading the 
>SVG source files. I believe there is an Ada PNG package (again I'm not sure 
>about its availablity).

Indeed there is an Ada PNG package, called PNG_IO. I wrote it, and it
is GPL Open Source. The website is:
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~sjs/png_io/png_io.html

>
>There are further possibilities with conversions between HTML, XSL-FO, 
>PS/EPS/PDF, and other presentation formats.
>
> > Anybody interested in collaborating?
>
>If you're interested in something like this, Mario, I might be interested 
>in collaborating. It would be important to plan the project carefully.