The biggest step to this (after many years of no progress) seems done:
Dec. 2011: In progress : native support of the SVG graphic format in Apache OpenOffice.org - Jan. 2012: Native SVG support for Apache OpenOffice 3.4 (Incubating)
I'm very happy about it!
I use mainly Inkscape to edit (various software exports) and to create SVG files and think it is the "state of the art" SVG software and available on all platforms under GPL. By this I strongly wish and support Inkscape SVG file support from AOO. To help in the analysis of the current status I have created a test file (SVG-Test-File-2013a-Inkscape.svg) and done some tests with current software versions. Here the screenshots of the test file from the software (all in Win7x32):
Inkscape 0.48.4 r9939 & PDF export (PNG export PDF-XChange Viewer 2.5.207)
AOO 3.4.1 & PDF export (PNG export PDF-XChange Viewer 2.5.207)
Firefox 18.0, Chrome 24.0.1350, IE 9.0.8112
Some issues in the AOO SVG handling. I would like to open a bug report if I feel comfortable in understanding the problem and AOO seems involved (I'm not a programmer or SVG code expert):
- Line thickness (in Inkscape Stroke Style Width) is not exported correctly to PDF: only a “hairline”, except some maybe correct case. Reproducible by using an older test file (2012). Major showstopper for PDF-Export.
- gradients differ from all other renderer interpretations: new file shows different linear gradient, in old 2012b file obvious radial gradient difference and also for linear gradient.
- Cloned Tiles (masked) seem to be rasterized by PDF exporter maybe depending from resolution.
- some text/links seem to be showed not on the correct place and/or comments show up?
- blur filter is not supported (as announced). This filter maybe should be supported as first both by renderer/exporter (rasterized in PDF by export setting like in Inkscape/cairo).
- “Hidden” objects in SVG seem to be showed by the renderer/exporter (see 2012b file, blue lines). This could maybe also a problem of Inkscape saving ("display none"?) in the test file or settings?