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From: Kai-Martin Knaak <knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de>
Subject: [geda-user] vectorized schematics on web page
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 04:56:37 +0200
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I like to put documentation on my projects on a dokuwiki web page. 
However, when I got my stuff going, schematics were a bit cumbersome. 
Pixelized versions tended to be huge in file size and still hardly
legible. Vector graphics did not render well in www browsers. So I 
settled for downloadable PDFs. 

Today, I tried again and was pleasantly surprised. The relevant tools 
have improved! The new gaf tool of geda facilitates the export (Thank 
you so much, Peter Brett!). There is a plugin for dokuwiki, which adds
a caption and allows to link dynamically to the figure. And finally 
major www browsers can handle images in SVG format. 

Here is the result:
http://bibo.iqo.uni-hannover.de/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=bauteil:spannungskonstanten&#variable_positive_spannung
(German only, but I think you get the impression)
You can click on the image to get a scaled version.

The work-flow was surprisingly straight forward:

1) export the schematic as *.eps 
  gaf export -l auto -o foobar.eps foobar.sch

2) convert to *.svg 
  inkscape --export-plain-svg=foobar.svg foobar.eps

3) command in dokuwiki : 
  <imgcaption xy|lorem ipsum>{{ :foobar.svg?300}}</imgcaption>

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