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Old 11-20-2016, 09:28 AM
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SVG or PDF for distribution...

Is providing SVG format models very prevalent in card modeling? Or do most builders really prefer PDF format? I prefer to support open standards like SVG but I suspect most card modelers don't have very good support for it on their computers.

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Old 11-20-2016, 09:42 AM
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Much prefer PDF format.
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My preference is for .pdo, seconded by .pdf. I must admit that I don't know what SVG files are, but I'm a builder not a designer.
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My preference is for .pdo, seconded by .pdf. I must admit that I don't know what SVG files are, but I'm a builder not a designer.
Probably more than you want to know:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics
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Old 11-20-2016, 11:12 AM
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Probably more than you want to know:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics
Scalable Vector Graphics huh! I can imagine what that's all about, but your assessment of my desires is probably about right.
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pdf for the masses.....
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*.svg files are not imported and displayed correctly by all applications. *.pdf is safer. If you are uncertain, you may decide to offer *.svg AND *.pdf files of the same model.
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Old 11-20-2016, 01:17 PM
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Ah, a carefully chosen question to continue pot stirring.

SVG can do clever things on web pages and is best left there.
Modelers don't need those clever things in the kits they will be printing and pdf reliably and rigidly conveys the information needed.

Incidentally most of the SVG 3view plans of aircraft found (by me) on web pages are little more than sketches in which each of the
three views are not paticularly accurate and do not fully co-ordinate with each other.
Not much use really and perhaps best avoided by designers intent on accuracy.
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Old 11-20-2016, 03:05 PM
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Sorry. Didn't realize it was one of 'those' issues. I wasn't intending to stir any pots.

I've been using SVG for various graphics since 2005 so it's a useful, familiar tool in my tool box. And in the open source world where I do most of my computer stuff, SVG and PDF are both supported about equally. Some applications are good at reading, writing and rendering, some not so good. In fact, I think SVG probably has a slight edge these days. And as an XML based vector graphics language, SVG is far easier for me to work with as I write programs to convert 3d models to paper models.

Since I've had a couple of people inform me of printing issues with a PDF I've created I was wondering if the issue is in my PDF writer or their readers or something else like a printer drive. But I have no reliable way of checking the quality of the internals of the PDF. I have to depend upon the tool I use to convert my SVG to PDF. With SVG I can open the document in a text reader and look at the actual code to determine if it has problems.

For me SVG is a good tool for producing card model designs. With modern browser support of SVG I was just wondering if it was a good format for 'consumers' of card model designs. If I could cut out a conversion I'd be more than happy to do it and just stick with SVG. So I asked the question. But I suspect this is not really a viable option in the proprietary world of Microsoft and Apple. I'll probably play around with the different options anyway.

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