topic Re: SVG support in Operating System - HP-UX

SVG support

Ned Portune — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:11:02 GMT

Okay, I know this is not necessarily a specific HP-UX OS question, but I'm hoping someone here may simply know the answer. We're trying to find out if SVG images are supported and viewable in any Mozilla (or Firefox) versions (1.5 or up) that are ported to HP-UX. On some platforms SVG requires a plugin from Adobe (which isn't apparently available for HP-UX) and on some it's natively supported. We have no HP-UX box here to test on. Does anyone know? Thanks.

Re: SVG support

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:15:41 GMT

Shalom Ned,

If the required adobe plugin is not available for HP-UX you have one alternative. Obtain an open source version and compile it. Linux boxes probably can view these files and they shy away from proprietary solutions like adobe.

You will not that a Linux system does not use adobe reader as a view, it uses an open source version.

So if your plugin has an open source version you can try and compile it on HP-UX.

Or you might simply consider using Linux for the job.

SEP

Re: SVG support

Michael Steele_2 — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:57:55 GMT

Look into more detail with Apache being supported on top of HP-UX:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_include.html

http://www.w3.org/TR/p3pdeployment#Appendix_Servers

Re: SVG support

Ned Portune — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:59:53 GMT

Thanks SEP.

That is definitely an option I hadn't considered, and may look into it. The key issue is that we still have thousands of customers on HP-UX, so "using" linux as the runtime platform isn't a reality in this situation. But if we can find an open source plugin that we could compile and distribute that may be a viable alternative.

Re: SVG support

Ned Portune — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:06:33 GMT

Hi Michael. Thanks for the response.

Unfortunately, Apache doesn't always enter into the picture - much of the documentation (in which the SVG references would occur) is used by customers locally without a web server being required. So, a solution which required apache mods wouldn't help in this situation. Thanks again for your time.