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Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams
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Thom Brown wrote:
> On 4 July 2010 04:49, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> On l?r, 2010-07-03 at 19:17 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> > I hesitate to suggest xfig, but at least it's got a well-specified
> >> > file format ...
> >>
> >> Looks a little old. ?It doesn't appear to support SVG output, for
> >> example.
> >
> > It supports EPS output which I believe can be converted to SVG.
> >
> 
> It looks like it does support SVG output:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfig
> http://epb.lbl.gov/xfig/printing.html#export
> http://www.xfig.org/art11.html

Yes, I have xfig 3.2 and it has SVG export, though it is labeled as
beta.

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