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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/20/2013 12:12 AM, Mathieu
Bouchard wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:alpine.DEB.2.00.1305192354550.25598@artengine.ca"
type="cite">Le 2013-05-15 à 18:46:00, s p a écrit :
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<blockquote type="cite">Well ... basically to me the way to go is
really with SVG as a starting point. Because once you have SVG,
you can use one of hundred different tools to convert to PNG,
JPG or any image format you can dream of.
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Well, that's not a real reason. There are plenty of image
conversion tools from many formats to many others. Several other
formats were already convertible by hundreds of tools before svg
existed.
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The reason you pick one of the « vector » formats is because you
want a scalable picture, and the reason you pick one of the raster
formats is because you want to have it just like it is on screen.
In that sense, converting a patch directly to a vector format is
not a « screenshot ».
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And within the vector formats, ps and pdf have been plenty
portable since very long. The claim of higher portability (« even
more cross-platform » in your other mail) looks like just another
epistle from the Holy Church of XML, who talk like they invented
interoperability and as if their formats were magically better at
it.
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Svg _should_ be better because every modern browser supports it and
you can easily put it into an html document (even without
javascript) just like you can put a png or jpeg into an html
document. You cannot do this with ps or even pdf so they are
nonstarters.<br>
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However, most web blogging/social-networking software seems to
support them to the same degree that browsers support displaying
postscript files. You've got to get in and change settings, and
that's not possible if you don't own the server (as on a forum or
social networking site).<br>
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In this case, I think it's probably best to allow exporting directly
to a common image format like png. Not because it's pixel-exact,
but because you can throw it into any forum on the web _today_. And
that sucks because it punishes people who are vision impaired (not
scalable and no descriptions of content). But maybe I'm being
cynical and we should just use the right tool for the job and write
detailed, user-friendly guides for how to make one's Wordpress site
seamlessly support svgs.<br>
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-Jonathan<br>
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PS : I'm not replying on pd-list because I'm not subscribed.
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