Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Images & PDF output

[Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>]

Nik Clayton writes:
 > > Mayura Draw? or is that not free?
 > 
 > It's not available on the target platform (specifically, FreeBSD, but more
 > generally, Unix).

oh, so it isnt. i had vaguely assumed it was ported

 > > It looks mildly cute. But I think it makes my point. an unstable 0.6
 > > version package which doesn't claim to support all of SVG? Limited to
 > > Latin1 encoding? thats what I call bleeding edge.
 > 
 > Did you have alternative (free, unix) implementations for PDF in mind?

You haven't said what you want an implementation of. I just installed
Sketch, I was impressed, very nice. But I don't do that kind of
drawing. If I want a formal sort of diagram, I use a markup language
like PSTricks (in LaTeX), or Metapost.

Metapost rewritten to produce SVG, that would be nice. And rewritten
so that its input language was XML

Sebastian