On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 18:14 +0100, Andrew Seddon wrote: > I think EDIF pretty much died, no party had a vested interest in > making it work and the standard is a bloated mess. > > SVG represents a real opportunity to piggy back on the much more > dominant force of the interwebs. TBH, I've not seen SVG anywhere on the main-stream internet. Linux desktops use SVG a lot for desktop graphics, but it really isn't as prevalent as it should be. What excuse is there for OpenOffice / LibreOffice being so appallingly bad at working with SVG files? Why can't we paste them right into TeX, LaTeX or whatever? They are all open source, yet this open format is not supported. Whilst SVG is an obvious open vector standard to support - not a lot of things actually work well with it sadly. I was pleasantly surprised to see FreeCAD saves out SVG for its CAD exports - but I would have expected (and half preferred) PDF. I'm getting used to the amazing ease with which tools like Inkscape can open PS and PDF files, then edit them as vector graphics. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me)
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