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

My 2 cents.

I use to convert pdf files to svg through Makefiles. I don't remember
the app I use for it offhand but can look if anyone is interested
(it's all free software, other than inkscape).

I also usually produce schematics in pdf with logos, barcodes, and
vital data (date, project, etc). I do this with Makefiles and plain
tex.

About the OT, I'm not an expert in svg, actually, I don't like any of
the descendants of sgml, languages that I find completely stupid, and
unreadable.

I don't either know if svg would support 3d, which I find would be
much of a propper boost for gEDA than anything else right now.

Being able to render photo-realistic images of boards (thing that
could even happen automatically throughout the process, with a simple
rule on the makefile), would be just great.

Also, I'm of the idea that relying on cairo more than neccesary is
letting things go worse. While it's a very useful and nice piece of
software, it makes eveything much slower.

Hence, rather than going svg (for which I find no point at all--I you
need svg, just convert you pdf to it, or open you pdf with inkscape),
I'd concentrate efforts in modifications of current format, such that
it allows 2d/3d description of footprints and containts or references
some raster image (uv map), and in opengl for gschem and pcb.

Regards,



On 16/04/2011, Markus Hitter <mah@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Am 11.04.2011 um 23:34 schrieb Peter Clifton:
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>> Inkscape. I don't think there is
>> anything available which is remotely comparable which doesn't cost
>> serious money.
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> Scribus/ScribusNG. Better suited for desktop publishing and not so
> CorelDraw-like. But that's off topic :-)
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