[time-nuts] SVG Re: lawnmower robots may be the end of VLF timekeeping

Jim Lux jimlux at earthlink.net
Mon May 11 14:19:54 UTC 2015


On 5/10/15 11:40 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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> In message <45C7C6B09BC548C19241E4E0673E9E9F at system072>, "Bill Hawkins" writes:
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>> Did the pictures have to be in SVG format?
>>
>> Is this only a problem for those who routinely use SVG?
>
> A problem how ?
>
> I *like* SVG since you can zoom without pixellation effects,
> and spent an afternoon writing code to screen-dump the HP8568
> into SVG format for the very same reason.
>
>


I like SVG for the same reason..

Not all browsers provide the same flexibility in viewing the data, or 
are as "smart" when plotting a very dense set of lines: say you've got 
30,000 datapoints which are individual vectors... if you were displaying 
this in a tiny window that is a few hundred pixels, a smart rendering 
engine would do some "collapsing" of the vectors, which would make 
rendering faster.

There are smart and less smart renderers of .eps and .pdf too..


I wish that some of the more popular tools (Matlab, Octave) would 
directly export their plots as svg.  For all I know the latest version 
might do that, I should check.




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