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 <m...@jump-ing.de> wrote: > > Am 11.04.2011 um 23:34 schrieb Peter Clifton: > >> Inkscape. I don't think there is >> anything available which is remotely comparable which doesn't cost >> serious money. > > Scribus/ScribusNG. Better suited for desktop publishing and not so > CorelDraw-like. But that's off topic :-) > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Dipl. Ing. (FH) Markus Hitter > http://www.jump-ing.de/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user