On 2008-09-30 23:24-0500 Maurice LeBrun wrote: > Interestingly, the following article on SVG editors just appeared on > linuxtoday.com today. > > http://www.linux.com/feature/148630
Yeah, I just finished reading that 5 minutes before I saw your post. There was one negative point in there that I found disturbing; various Linux svg editors apparently don't talk to each other very well via svg. My additional recent experience is the librsvg-based svg viewers such as the ImageMagick "display" app misinterpret standard svg commands about x positioning of text. (Fortunately, that appears not to be a problem for konqueror and firefox.) Haven't all these svg application developers with svg i/o issues ever heard of following/supporting standards? Of course, our own situation is much simpler because we don't have the input problem where you have to support essentially the whole standard in order to understand everyone else. That simplification allows us to use programming by Hazen to output the SVG file for -dev svg using a tiny subset of the svg-1.1 standard. However, at least I have tested that -dev svg output extensively to make sure the result is compliant with the svg-1.1 validator at http://validator.w3.org. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
