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Re: gEDA-user: RFC using SVG with semantic markup as an EDA format

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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:03:42 +0800
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On Apr 12, 2011, at 2:55 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak <knaak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Peter Clifton wrote:
> 
>> TBH, I've not seen SVG anywhere on the main-stream internet.
> 
> Wikipedia prefers SVG for anything that is not a photograph. The servers
> render SVG graphics to PNG as needed before handing it out to the browser.
> 
> 
>> Linux
>> desktops use SVG a lot for desktop graphics, but it really isn't as
>> prevalent as it should be.
> 
> Microsoft and Apple do not like 
> 
> 
Safari has supported SVG for a while now?  Why doesn't apple like SVG?



>> What excuse is there for OpenOffice / LibreOffice being so appallingly
>> bad at working with SVG files?
> 
> Actually, SVG import is among the first features of libreoffice beyond 
> openoffice:
> http://www.libreoffice.org/download/new-features-and-fixes/
> 
> 
>> Why can't we paste them right into TeX, LaTeX or whatever? They are all
>> open source, yet this open format is not supported.
> 
> IMHO, latex development reached a state of virtual feature freeze before
> SVG became a viable alternative.
> 
> 
>> Whilst SVG is an obvious open vector standard to support - not a lot of
>> things actually work well with it sadly.
> 
> The number one open source vector drawing application, inkscape uses SVG
> as its native file format. This alone would be reason enough to seriously
> consider SVG as an import/export file format.
> 
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