[CLUE-Tech] Linux for publishing and the masses

[Matt Gushee]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 04:57:23PM -0600, Timothy C. Klein wrote:
> 
> I'm confused.  I thought SVG was just a general vector graphics format.
> Can you tell that an SVG was made with Illustrator, and that is your
> beef?  Or is there something wrong with the SVG format in general?

Nothing's wrong with SVG, really. It's just that there aren't enough
good tools for it in general, and especially not under Linux. The lack
of solid SVG drawing tools has been duly noted in this thread, but the
viewer situation isn't pretty either. Mozilla has an SVG viewer
component, but it's optional, so you have to compile your own Moz to get
it. A while back, Adobe was offering a Linux version of their SVG
viewer, but when I went to their site I found ... I forget what exactly
the problem was, but it seemed to have some library dependency that made
it incompatible with most current Linux systems. Plus the fact that that
portion of their Web site was seriously fscked up. Oh, and then there's
the W3C's Amaya [shudder].

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