Re: First SVG graphic

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Jürgen Purtz <juergen(at)purtz(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: First SVG graphic
Date: 2018-11-30 22:36:31
Message-ID: 20181130223631.GA17824@momjian.us
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 06:04:06PM +0100, Jürgen Purtz wrote:
> I take the reactions of the last days as a strong consent to go on with the
> effort to integrate graphics into the documentation and use SVG as the language
> which creates such graphics. Also the proposed parallel handling of two SVG
> files - a rich but tool-specific version (optional and not normative) and a
> poor tool-independent version (mandatory and normative) - for the same graphic
> seems to be accepted. The community agrees that this way is not optimal because
> the use of different SVG-tools will lead to unnecessary problems - but there is
> no consensus about tools.
>
> What shall we do next:
>
> • I will create one or more wiki pages where the procedure is described.
> Everybody can extend this pages or contribute to their discussion sites.
> The pages will be found in the category 'Documentation' and its subcategory
> 'SVG' (to be created).
> • Actually, we have the very simple example 'PageLayout.svg' and an example
> of medium complexity 'gin.svg'. For testing purposes we shall have a third
> one of high complexity and with many different graphical elements. Can
> someone send such an example - as a screenshot or in any other format?
> • I want to engage everybody to identify important issues of PG and visualize
> them (similar to Oleg's proposal). We will have a - possibly long lasting -
> period of experiments with different examples. I think, it's necessary that
> we make our experiences with different tools and proceedings (one person
> creates a graphic, another one contributes changes, using the same or a
> different tool, ...). Those examples shall not be pure academic use cases.
> They shall reflect real situations with the expectation to be included into
> the documentation - one day or another.
> • In the initial phase, it may be helpful to do some centralized clearings on
> the first SVG source files. 'Copy&Paste' is widely used and the first
> examples will have the meaning of a lighthouse.
> • I will contact our web-team to discuss style-guide related issues.

Sounds good. I have many xfig/SVG images in my presentations if you
want to use any of them:

https://momjian.us/presentations

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