[ale] OpenOffice Draw for Site Maps?

[Brian Pitts]

On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 20:04 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Thu January 29 2009, Brian Pitts wrote:
> > Can visio work with postscript or svg? I haven't used it; just curious.
> 
> I have no idea what SVG is, and I'm not sure how you mean postscript. Isn't 
> that a printing device? Are you saying print it to Postscript, and what? I 
> would still need to RUN it to print, which still means windows. 

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

-Brian