Re: Diagram tools?

The only problem I have with Google Slides is that you can't save it (I
think) into our repository.

Whatever tool we use, the source material needs to be checked in and
available to future editors/contributors so they don't have to start from
scratch.

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Joe Berkovitz <joe@noteflight.com> wrote:

> I have recently started using Google Slides to create diagrams. This too
> is obviously a proprietary tool but it is free, can be used on any platform
> and I find it is adequate for most diagrams.
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> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2016-09-28 11:58, Raymond Toy wrote:
>>
>>> It looks like most[1] of the diagrams in the spec were created using
>>> OmniGraffle.  Is this the desired tool we want to use for the diagrams?
>>>
>>> I don't care too much as long as we pick one.
>>>
>> I would much prefer the diagrams to be maintained in an open format (SVG
>> would be a good choice here) which can be generated and maintained in
>> multiple editors on all platforms. OmniGraffle looks nice, but the app is
>> iOS and OS X only and it is a proprietary format.
>>
>>>
>>> It seems we might also be missing the source for some of the diagrams,
>>> like the convolver example. It would be nice to have the original sources
>>> for the diagrams checked in somewhere.
>>>
>> Agreed.
>>
>> --
>> Chris Lilley
>> @svgeesus
>> Technical Director, W3C Interaction Domain
>>
>>
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