Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of vie jul 09 20:01:55 -0400 2010:
>
> > Where are we on this?  Application?  dia? xfig?  Number of colors?  Once
> > we decide these items, we can start adding diagrams.
>
> I think the first step is defining the source format.  The proposed
> patch uses the dia XML source format, but this is said to have some
> drawbacks (namely: the source is too verbose, the generated png is too
> bloated, and only one tool to handle it).  SVG was also proposed as an
> alternative, but there wasn't much discussion about it.  And finally we
> have xfig.
>
> So what is it?
>
> Maybe we could have diagrams generated by different tools; e.g. we could
> use GraphViz for some things.

OK, all the images on my presentations page are from xfig, and the
representative file sizes are as below:

    1092 query_ssl.fig
    4370 query_ssl.png

PNG image attached.

What I like about xfig is that I can export EPS and embed those in PDF
files as _raster_ images.  Not sure we can use those in our PDFs though.

I assume Dia has more image style options than xfig.

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