[pdftex] SVG creation: ?xfig.

[Michael Chapman]

If one just wishes to produce vector graphics then Xfig is quite nice, though 
whether it has all the features you want . . . 

It has a nasty non-scrollable list of 'export' formats, divided into Vector 
and Raster. The truncated Vector list runs to 24 types and includes PDF 
(which in my experience works nicely) and also SVG as a 'beta' which for me 
produced output I could do nothing with. For non-web stuff though I just go 
straight to PDF.
That was all with version 3.2.4 ---suspect the World may have moved on since 
then.

Michael Chapman,
Culoz, France.

(One 'nice' use was to produce a vector graphic that I selected portions out 
of with a Perl script, and then converted to a raster format with ImageMagick 
to produce a video series of panning/zooming/rotating for a DVD.
(Zooming on a raster image is obviously fairly messy unless its v. high 
definition and you do limited zooming . . . ))