On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:33:26PM +0100, John Delacour wrote:
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> I use SVG exclusively at the moment for technical drawing, to do what
> most people probably do in a clumsy and unfathomable CAD program.
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> On the Mac at least, an SVG image can be printed direct to a vector
> PDF from either Safari or Firefox (not Opera, which creates a raster
> PDF) and this can be converted to DXF to take to the machinist, the
> laser cutter, the water-jet cutter etc. to produce whatever object is
> being drawn. There is also a UNIX program svg2pdf which uses Cairo
> to produce a vector PDF but it is not reliable or fully developed.
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> I look forward to the day when the profile of SVG is raised to a
> point where it is generally recognised as a serious tool for serious
> work rather than a toy to produce useless cartoons etc. It ought to
> be possible to take an SVG file to a machine shop in the morning and
> collect a finished product in the evening.
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Mr. Delacour, I judge that a modest hope, one that deserves
to be fulfilled in the next few years. While I'm in no
position to guarantee it, I think it's a reasonable bet.
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