gEDA-dev: Gschem and Cairo --> stretchable symbols

[John Griessen]

The ability to have a GUI that can use SVG is possibly going to be worth
the extra dependency some day, especially if it is becoming mainstream  use with 
GTK, it will not be one of the unpopular dependencies that thwarts newbies.

SVG is great for postscript-like one-way output, but it also serves as a two-way
man-machine interface that is unable to cause security threats AFAIK, and 
enables quick custom UI developments.  I'd like to see it become a kind of 
allowed image object to be included in PCB output chunks, ( with a simple 
geometric border keepaway defined), and also as part of symbols.  As a gschem 
symbols data structure, I think it would get us to "stretchable symbols" the 
fastest.

John G

Stuart Brorson wrote:
> Sorry for the top post.
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> I also apologize in advance for pouring cold water on your project.  I
> took a look at the screenshots and the Cairo stuff does look slightly
> whizzier than the GTK stuff..
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> On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Tomaz Solc wrote:
>> I've been experimenting with the Cairo graphics library.
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>> Cairo is a free 2D graphics library that provides drawing operations
>> similar to PostScript. It can draw beautifully anti-aliased output to
>> the screen or to a PostScript or SVG file.