On 23 April 2017 at 17:35, Martin Owens <doctormo@...155...> wrote:
> Is there something to the notion that SVG2+ may never happen, or be
> so tenuous that it takes years?

This is really something that Tav can delve into far more than I can.

Agreed.

> I don't have evidence, but the shape of graphic tools in Linux-land

> (my O/S pov) is primitive. I have to ask why we can't do the few
> essential things (like abstract-out symbols/clones and palettes - the
> basic efficiency stuff) after so many years? 

That's an investment problem, not a standards problem. Most of the
issues we have (the big ones anyway) are not sitting here waiting for
svg, they're waiting for developers with time/money to work on them.

Take CMYK, svg has supported cmyk for a long time (in that you can
specify colours as cmyk data) but Inkscape's capacity to load, save and
then export those colours to pdf has been slow to realise.

I hope this adds something, but I'm not an expert really.

Fair enough. Thank you.

/d