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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Thom Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Rafael Martinez <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Cc: Marc Fournier <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:04:51 -0400
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Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> Thom Brown wrote:
>> 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.

Why should we care about SVG export?  AFAICT, SVG support is not
widespread enough or stable enough among web browsers that we'd want
to use SVG directly in the finished HTML docs.

(But having said that, I recall seeing at least one diagram editor
whose native format was SVG.  That might be worth a look too.)

			regards, tom lane

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