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[oats-sig] SVG: simple and easy to use authoring tool.

Steve Lee steve at fullmeasure.co.uk
Sun Jul 6 21:02:53 BST 2008

Article: [oats-sig] SVG: simple and easy to use authoring tool.

2008/7/6 Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd at btinternet.com>:
>>> while waiting for the real solution: A tool that creates the symbols
>>> directly in SVG. I am working for that.
> Mats could you expand on your requirements and the work you are preparing
> towards this goal?
> Would you be interested to define an SVG microformat?
> This is a formal description of a minimal set of SVG elements needed for an
> easy to use authoring tool.

Yes  I was wondering why Inkscape is not suitable.
May be it could be extended to add features specifically suitable for
communications symbols (perhaps organisational?).
Inkscape does support plugins so perhaps one could be made (Google
Summer of Code?)
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/PlugIns
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