On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 08:55:12PM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak 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 > > > > 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.
Surely you can convert SVG to EPS, which TeX/LaTeX happily embed. Looks like UniConvertor/sK1 is the usual Free tool to script that conversion. Would it make any sense to leverage that software base, and add Gerber or native gEDA/PCB to its list of import and export filters? http://sk1project.org/modules.php?name=Products&product=uniconvertor - Larry _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user