Re: Open standards for pictures (Was: Faux Pas -- web publication in proprietary formats at ietf.org

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Stephane Bortzmeyer writes:

> I agree, SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics, http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/)
> should be the standard for RFC. True, it is not an IETF standard but
> it is open (for whatever definition of open you choose).

Neither PostScript nor PDF is secret.  And you can write software to
process PDF without paying any royalties; I think the same is true for
PostScript.  This is vastly preferable to reinventing the wheel.

> An alternative is the Graphviz "dot" language
> (http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/) which is certainly
> much simpler to edit by hand but is not completely open (it is a
> proprietary format, although its use is free and there is a free
> software implementation).

Why is this better than PostScript and PDF?



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