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RE: drawing program that can import SVG generated by Railroad Diagram Generator?
Subject:RE: drawing program that can import SVG generated by Railroad Diagram Generator? From:"Rick Quatro" <rick -at- rickquatro -dot- com> To:"'Robert Lauriston'" <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>, "'TECHWR-L Writing'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 5 Jan 2016 20:12:02 -0500
Robert,
Try creating a simple document with Illustrator and export is as SVG. Then
open the SVG with a text editor. Maybe you can reverse-engineer what you
need from that.
Rick
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
PathChanger at frameautomation.com
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That was the next thing I was going to try. Should an SVG file have some
sort of header?
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Richard Hamilton <dick -at- rlhamilton -dot- net>
wrote:
> ... you should be able to just grab the SVG instances, put them in
> separate files, and edit them with any SVG editor
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