Bug 325083

Summary:	Okular displays SVG files as plain text
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	m101010a
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	cfeck, yurchor
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.17.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description m101010a 2013-09-19 10:31:58 UTC

When I open an SVG file with "okular file.svg" it shows me the raw XML contained in the file rather than interpreting it as an SVG image.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
0. Have an svg file
1. Open the file in okular by typing "okular file.svg"
Actual Results:  
Okular displays paginated XML text.

Expected Results:  
Okular displays pretty pictures.

Comment 1 Yuri Chornoivan 2013-09-19 10:58:35 UTC

Okular is not an SVG viewer:

http://okular.kde.org/formats.php

Please use KDE picture viewer (Gwenview) to watch SVG.

Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2013-10-01 21:09:24 UTC

Okular does not render SVG right now, but using an image viewer does not sound like a suitable replacement.

When printing using Gwenview (and possibly other image viewers), it will first convert the SVG to raster data, which degrades the quality of the print-out.

I suggest to re-evaluate this report, and possibly mark it as a wish.

EDIT: I just checked, Gwenview does not even allow SVG to be printed.

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2013-10-01 21:19:50 UTC

After checking on IRC with okular developers, if SVG support is needed in Okular in the future, please report it separately as a wish for "okular/New backend wishes", stating use case.