On Jul 3, 2010, at 4:16 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >>> Seems like a good one. But I'd still like to know the answer to the >>> question I asked upthread - how is anyone supposed to generate images >>> this way? >> >> Hmm, judging from >> http://live.gnome.org/Dia >> >> the answer is that .dia files aren't meant to be human readable but only >> to be a storage format for WYSIWYG editing. I find this less than >> thrilling: it essentially means you *can't* edit the images any other >> way than using dia. (I'd bet a nickel that any small change results in >> massive changes in the file contents, too, which will be un-fun for >> keeping them in a VCS.) > > Anyone know of any other alternatives we could investigate?
SVG is one option. Natively supported in all web browsers but one (and that has a workaround), vector based, and there are a bunch of editors for it. There are several rasterizers to png, I'm not sure which would be least painful as part of a build chain. ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgSVGConverters ) Cheers, Steve -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
