Re: FDW API / flow charts for the docs?

On 18.10.2013 23:52, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 10/18/13 5:35 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> I can't see it being a major effort to get it from the wiki into
>> the docs, though perhaps I'm being a bit over-optomistic wrt that.
>
> Hah!
>
> Consider that an image would have to work with the following
> toolchains/output formats:
>
> - standalone HTML output
> - web site HTML output
> - reasonable mobile/small-screen experience
> - HTML XSLT
> - jadetex
> - pdfjadetex
> - FOP
> - Texinfo (at least not break it)
> - man (at least not break it)
> - EPUB
>
> In my mind, it's not worth the effort unless we have, say, at least
> a dozen really useful images to add. I don't want to go through this
> entire pain for one image on a pretty minor topic.

AFAIK graphviz can give you at least .ps .svg .fig .png .gif .dia
formats (and some other). I believe that covers most (if not all) of the
cases you've mentioned.