[ale] OpenOffice Draw for Site Maps?

[Brian Pitts]

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 06:41 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Thu January 29 2009, Brian Pitts wrote:
> > SVG stands for scalable vector graphics. It's an xml-based open standard
> > file format for, you guessed it, vector graphics. Postscript is a
> > turing-complete programming language. It's often used to control
> > printers, in it's EPS incarnation it's also often used as vector graphic
> > file format.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulated_PostScript
> 
> I'm a stick drawing kinda guy, this is almost over my head:)
> what I see is, these were developed for another patform ( MAC..) and ported, 
> badly, to windows ( see WMF) and, oh, by the way, *NIX ( ASCII).. for 
> portability...


If you draw in sticks, you're a vector art guy and don't know it yet.

My train of thought was that Visio's features sound like a subset of the
features a vector drawing application would have, so maybe it would
support the same file formats they do. If anyone knows the answer they
should fill in Visio's line in this chart on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_vector_graphics_editors#Vector_file_formats:_Import

-Brian