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SVG Export

Jon Summers
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SVG Unreadable by Third-Party Applications

I'm puzzled about SVG export: it doesn't produce files that are readable by other applications.

Attached is a PDF of a simple example: it's dimensioned in modest master units, close to the model's origin. Yet when I export this, the SVG file has absurd coordinates. Design file setting is 10,000 UOR per master. For example, here's one of the lines:

line x1="7.39147e+006" y1="-7.39146e+006" x2="7.39249e+006" y2="-7.39146e+006"

The e+006 is exponential notation for 10 to the power 6, which is one million. How does a line 7m long translate in SVG to 7 million units?

Corel Paint Shop Pro says that example.svg, created from the same model as the PDF, is not valid SVG. I don't have Illustrator, so haven't been able to test. But the Adobe SVG plug-in for web browsers won't display a MicroStation exported SVG either.

What's the position with SVG: How was the exporter tested?  How do we obtain a successful export? I don't see many settings options in the export.

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  • Interesting note on the Adobe SVG site. They will discontinue support as of, 1 January 2009.

    http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/

    I was unable to work with it successfully with earlier releases of V8i and with discontinued support I stopped testing it.
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    Matt Phillips:

    Interesting note on the Adobe SVG site. They will discontinue support as of, 1 January 2009.

    http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/

    I was unable to work with it successfully with earlier releases of V8i and with discontinued support I stopped testing it.
    Adobe may be dropping SVG (having bought Macromedia and hence gained Flash, a cynic might note) but SVG lives on as an open standard, now implemented (to varying levels) in Opera, Firefox and Safari. You may want to check out SVG Web on Google Code, for a more modern SVG plugin for poor old IE: http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/
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    Matt Phillips:

    Interesting note on the Adobe SVG site. They will discontinue support as of, 1 January 2009.

    http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/

    I was unable to work with it successfully with earlier releases of V8i and with discontinued support I stopped testing it.
    Adobe may be dropping SVG (having bought Macromedia and hence gained Flash, a cynic might note) but SVG lives on as an open standard, now implemented (to varying levels) in Opera, Firefox and Safari. You may want to check out SVG Web on Google Code, for a more modern SVG plugin for poor old IE: http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/
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