Alot of good suggestions here guys but the bottom line is this... I'm very fluent in C/C++ so I'm more comfortable doing something overkill but fast than learning something new. I can't take the risk in investing my limited amount of time to learning something new unless i was sure that it would be a time saver. I'd prefer to stick with something that i can judge the required amount of effort with.
Now some more about my project....All i really want is a command line program that reads in a CSV excel file and spits out a SVG graphics file. It doesn't need to display it or anything. I plan on taking the SVG and opening it in Visio or converting it to a PDF or displaying it on a website. Very basic stuff. The kinds of things i need to draw are basic as well. It's all black and white with nothing more than lines, boxes and text. It's just a wiring schematic. I know visio can open this kind of stuff to view it. I realize that i can just spit out plain text with fprintf but to do so would require a pretty good knowledge of xml which i don't have. I know a lot of you right now are either laughing or offended that i chose to use XML with this project but i just figured that with the right API, i wouldn't need to learn much XML...I could just tell the API to export one of the primitives that i need and be done with it. If nothing like this exists than i guess i'm going to have to do some reading. Thanks, Chris --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, "r_v_putten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I had sent a message 90 minutes ago, but used a wrong mail address so > it probably got rejected... I'll just copy it here. > > One note: Mark might be right about database+xslt+whatever being > simpler (I haven't used xslt yet), but as a proficient C/C++ > programmer who is used to working with flat ascii files, this might > get you to the point in a shorter time, because you don't have to > learn a new concept. If you knew you had to work on the project for > the next 4 years, my suggestion is xslt/whatever, for a project in a > very short time, it's C++. > > And now the old message: > > Hello Chris, > > > I'm new to SVG. I've never used it before but i want to use it to > generate images that can be used in Visio (which can open SVG), > possibly convert to PDF and also view on the web. The images will be > generated by a program i want to write which will interpret some data > in a database. > > My first suggestion is to check if Visio really can open all of SVG. > SVG is a really complex thing, so if you take one program that outputs > SVG, I don't think another program that inputs SVG can necessarily > understand everything correctly. > > > Basically i'm making schematics for a wiring diagram and i will have > connector types saved in a database as well as to/from pin routings. > From this data i want to generate the schematic using SVG. > > > > I'm proficient in C/C++ but i'm not sure where to begin. Is there an > SVG SDK for C/C++ out there somewhere? > > I'm a C/C++ programmer too, and if I had to do such a thing today, I > would probable just output text files from my program. That way you > can control what's in the SVG and that Visio will understand it. An > XML library might be of help, but it shouldn't even be necessary. I > think I'd chose fprintf(). > > My suggestion would be to read a book about SVG and then use it like > an operating systems drawing functions. Lines and rects are no problem > at all, transformations and scaling is easy if you extensively used a > graphics lib before. Reusing parts of the graphic with <defs /> and > <use /> will come in quite handy. There are many more things that SVG > can do but you will probably not need them. > > Just two cents from an advanced SVG beginner. > > Raoul ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12h92nojk/M=362131.6882499.7825260.1510227/D=groups/S=1706030389:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123014270/A=2889191/R=0/SIG=10r90krvo/*http://www.thebeehive.org ">Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job) Welcome to the Sweet Life - brought to you by One Economy</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
