[pdftex] Re: PdfTeX and SVG graphics

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 10:35:52PM -0600, Ben Crowell wrote:
> >What kind of graphics are you producing, XY charts, flowcharts, binary
> >trees, technical diagrams?  Depending on your needs one or the other of
> >these packages could fit.
> I have about 700 preexisting figures, used in a series of physics textbooks.
> I originally did them in Adobe Illustrator, and am now trying to get so I
> I can do all the editing of them in open-source software. I'm now at the
> point where my only reason for maintaining a Mac is to run Illustrator.

Time and again I try to do my graphics stuff with open source
stuff, mainly Sketch and the Gimp. Although theoretically they
should be up to the job in some 80% of the cases for my purposes, I
find them just too awkward and primitive compared to Illustrator
and PhotoShop.

I run Linux on a Powerbook. Last time around I gave up once more
on Sketch and ran instead Illustrator on Mac OS 9 under MOL (Mac
On Linux). This worked very well, and at least saved me rebooting,
although it means I am still not weaned from proprietary software.

And SVG just isn't there yet, at least not for Linux. It is not
just a matter of which converters exist, but also what features
they support and how faithfully and reliably.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg