Hi, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > First I'd like to welcome these discussions as it shows that the Blue > Obelisk community continues to attract new ideas and collaborators. You are > all very welcome. Open Data, Open Standards, Open Source and Open > Discussion.
Fine. > I'd strongly suggest using CML as the export format. It interoperates with > SVG and is widely supported in the BO. There are also many structures for > wich MOL files are not suitable (e.g. crystal structures). The value of XML > languages are that you can add annotations and additional information to > elements. For example you might wish to annotate some spheres/circle as > being atoms and others have a different purpose. It's perfectly ok to write: > > <svg:circle cx="1.0" cy="2.0" r="3.0" style="fill:green"> > <cml:atom id="a1" elementType="Cl" x3="4.0" y3="5.0" z3="6.0"/> > </svg:circle> > > This is then able to carry two coordinate systems into the next part of the > processing - indeed we can probably ensure that the graphics information > survives through the chemical processing and vice versa. > > I use SVG+CML a lot and they work very well together. With simple XML tools > you ensure syntactic validation of the XML (e.g. the writer() will > automatically escape & and <). Modern web tools will be able to process it > in other valuable ways we haven't thought of (e.g. Google's wave is based on > XML, rather than legacy formats). >From what I understand that reads fine. But it does not directly help me. I first would have to find a program that parses pov and writes some CML. Having CML I still dont have a method to generate a svg. Or at least not anything that looks a bit like the original raytraced raster image? Regards, -- Dr. Michael T. Kirchner Institut für Anorganische Chemie Universität Duisburg-Essen Universitätsstr. 5-7 45117 Essen [email protected] Tel +49 201 183 4139 Fax +49 201 183 7342 Raum S07 S00 C24 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
