On 12/04/2012 07:56, Lars Behrens wrote: > John Beardmore schrieb: >> Thanks. That certainly is importable. There is still a grumble about >> unsupported features, and the aspect ratio is a bit wrong, but that's > > In my experience, ungrouping all content in the svg before exporting > helps a lot.
Thanks Lars, I'll try that next time. I have high hopes for SVG. I'm astonished really that vector graphics haven't played a bigger part in day to day computing. I guess this is in part due to the problems inherent with the various file formats. Postscript seems to be brilliant, but propitiatory. EPS seemed to be an attempt at something more portable but frequently doesn't seem to be interpreted well by packages that can import it. PDF is great and has a lot of potential for interactivity which seems to be locked down to Adobe, but hats off to Adobe anyway for the gift of Postscript. Then there's windows metafiles which are flawed in oh so many ways, and 'enhanced' metafiles which gave us whole new ways to make something hard to use. Then there's all the cad formats, again mostly propitiatory (anything good that isn't ?), mostly using software with price tags that lock out mere mortals. Given the problems with all of the above, SVG seems to be the great white hope to me, but only if it becomes standard enough to import as easily as .tif or .jpg image. If you have to mess with it, and use a restricted of subset of features to make it work sensibly, again it won't catch on, and it's use will be confined to niches where interoperability issues are understood. Cheers, J/. -- John Beardmore,MSc EDM (Open),B.A. Chem (Oxon),CMIOSH,CEnv,MIEMA,MEI Managing Director, T4 Sustainability Limited. http://www.T4sLtd.co.uk/ Registered Office: 181 Belper Road, Stanley Common, Ilkeston. DE7 6FT Company Reg: 4441097, VAT Number: 797 2239 85, MCS: ELC54087. Energy Audit, Carbon Management, Design Advice, Sustainable Energy Consultancy and Installation, Carbon Trust Standard Registered Assessor Transition Training and Consultancy Energy Resilience Assessor Phone: 0845 4561332 Mobile: 07785 563116 Skype: t4sustainability
