gEDA-user: Hand-made "PNG export"

[Peter Clifton]

On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 20:34 -0700, Steven Michalske wrote:
> very pretty picture.
> 
> the better idea is to write a SVG exporter,  then each layer is in  
> vector format, then use inkscape or any other SVG editor) to edit the  
> colors and stack them up.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Electronics/ 
> How_to_draw_SVG_circuits_using_Xcircuit
> 
> this way you could theoretically color code the traces and what not

Can't SVGs be active?

Think hovering over a trace, perhaps clicking it and having the
web-browser (or other SVG viewer) hotlink to the appropriate point in
the netlist?

I've seen similar things done the other way around (netlist connections
to components on the board, in the "smart" PDFs produced by another
package.

Peter