[LON-CAPA-users] uploading SVG

Stuart Raeburn raeburn at msu.edu
Tue Jul 29 10:51:40 EDT 2014


Hi,

Use of SVG image files requires modification to the mime.types file on  
your web server (and web server reload).

The mime.types file shipped with LON-CAPA releases has not, up until  
now, included the required line:

image/svg+xml  svg svgz

because of LON-CAPA policy to support older browsers (i.e., Internet  
Explorer 8 and older). Note: use of SVG with IE8 requires an SVG  
viewer on the client side.

Anyway, I have committed an updated mime.types file to the LON-CAPA  
CVS repository, and will include that in the forthcoming 2.11.1

http://source.loncapa.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/loncom/mime.types?rev=1.7;content-type=text%2Fplain

To use LON-CAPA's mime.types config file, your domain's Apache  
server's configuration needs to include:

TypesConfig conf/mime.types

Currently, printout generation (i.e., use of LON-CAPA's Print function  
to generate a PDF from TeX) will fail if you include an svg file in an  
img tag in a LON-CAPA resource.  See:  
http://bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6728


Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium

Quoting Peter Dencker <dencker at math.uni-luebeck.de>:

>
> Hi.
>
> It is possible to use an image reference to a svg, e.g.,
> <img
> src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Letters_SVG.svg" />
> in a LON-CAPA problem.
>
> But it doesn't work to upload the corresponding file into the
> construction space and to use it. It is not even possible to open the
> uploaded picture in the browser; a xml scource code is shown.
>
> Other pictures (e.g. png) work.
>
> Is this a common problem or have I done something wrong?
>
> - Peter
>
>
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>
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>
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