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Re: What are people using SVG for?

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• Subject: Re: What are people using SVG for?
• From: David Megginson <david@m...>
• Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:25:17 -0400
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Robin Berjon writes:

 > Thomas B. Passin wrote:

 > > I was very happy I could use SVG and liked it much better than
 > > working with Postscript - although PS can do a lot more or at
 > > least it is easier to figure out how
 > 
 > I'd be interested in knowing what PS can do that SVG can't and that
 > you'd have liked to see in SVG while working on those tasks.

Postscript is a complete programming language, though most people tend
to think of it as a file format.  The downside is that the only way to
see what a Postscript image looks like is to execute all of the code
in the file.  Postscript is more similar to LaTeX in that regard than
to (say) DocBook or HTML.


All the best,


David

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David Megginson, david@m..., http://www.megginson.com/

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