Re: Images in the official documentation

2018-02-25 Thread Jürgen Purtz
As an addition to my mail from January 2016 concerning graphics (https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/568A9148.30303%40purtz.de) I propose to use SVG (after switching to XML) - but not an SVG which is generated by Inkscape or similar tools. Those editors generate very ugly and chatty commands.

Re: Images in the official documentation

2018-02-25 Thread Steve Atkins
> On Feb 25, 2018, at 4:00 AM, Jürgen Purtz wrote: > > As an addition to my mail from January 2016 concerning graphics > (https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/568A9148.30303%40purtz.de) I propose > to use SVG (after switching to XML) - but not an SVG which is generated by > Inkscape or simil

Re: Images in the official documentation

2018-02-25 Thread Craig Ringer
On 26 February 2018 at 04:12, Steve Atkins wrote: > > Writing SVG by hand maybe doesn't seem the best idea. > > I understand the attraction to people who want to store everything as > diffable text, but images of this sort are unlikely to get updated by > others, which means they're unlikely to b

Re: Images in the official documentation

2018-02-25 Thread Steve Atkins
> On Feb 25, 2018, at 6:45 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: > > On 26 February 2018 at 04:12, Steve Atkins wrote: > > Writing SVG by hand maybe doesn't seem the best idea. > > I understand the attraction to people who want to store everything as > diffable text, but images of this sort are unlikely t

Re: Images in the official documentation

2018-02-25 Thread Tom Lane
Craig Ringer writes: > On 26 February 2018 at 04:12, Steve Atkins wrote: >> Writing SVG by hand maybe doesn't seem the best idea. >> I understand the attraction to people who want to store everything as >> diffable text, but images of this sort are unlikely to get updated by >> others, which mean

Re: Images in the official documentation

2018-02-25 Thread Craig Ringer
On 26 February 2018 at 12:16, Tom Lane wrote: > Craig Ringer writes: > > Yeah, I think it'd just effectively preserve the status quo by rendering > > anyone who's willing to add images and designs to the docs unable - or > > unlikely to be willing - to do so. > > This is an entirely reasonable c