Re: First SVG graphic

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, juergen(at)purtz(dot)de, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: First SVG graphic
Date: 2018-11-28 20:08:44
Message-ID: CABUevEx1N1rfqwk3f2V0msSs0S6vN3omaD5cAEQqzDWm970=KA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 8:53 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

> On 2018-Nov-28, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 11:46:33AM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On 2018-11-28 18:34:26 +0100, Jürgen Purtz wrote:
> > > > After one week no response at all? Neither positive nor negative. It
> seems
> > > > that the community has little interest in the SVG issue. Or in my
> > > > suggestion?
> > >
> > > I'd suggest describing your proposed workflow in sgml, not a pdf file.
> >
> > Well, there were a number of images in the PDF that would be harder to
> > do in SGML.
>
> I think the point is how do you integrate the images from the SVG source
> into the documentation output. Presumably that won't be PDF, for
> example the HTML output will not use a PDF as an image embedded in the
> page. It probably works ok for the PDF output (of the whole
> documentation) to use the PDF of the image ... I suppose the HTML output
> will need a PNG or such.
>
>
If the source is SVG, why not just use SVG? SVG support in browsers has to
be pushing 10 years now, shouldn't be a problem at all... And SVG can be
embedded in the HTML itself (whether that would work in this particular
case I don't know, but in theory it can)

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