Re: [rfc-i] Inserting SVG graphics into an IETF draft

On 25-May-22 12:16, Martin Thomson wrote:
> I still draw ASCII art.  It seems like you could do the same for this example.
> 
> aasvg [1] produces acceptable SVG from ASCII art that is guaranteed to be acceptable to svgcheck and RFC 7996 [2].  Example: https://httpwg.org/http2-spec/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2bis.html#figure-2
> 
> [1] https://github.com/martinthomson/aasvg
> [2] With default options and one caveat: it puts width and height attributes on the <svg> element, which xml2rfc doesn't like.  But xml2rfc is wrong to complain.

It's the width and height attributes that break automatic scaling, so I believe the complaint is justified. If a viewbox element is present, the width and height elements can simply be deleted. That's one of the things my fixup tool does.

    Brian

> 
> On Wed, May 25, 2022, at 09:11, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>> In my experience, dia is just about the only tool that gets close to
>> meeting RFC7996 requirements. Whatever tool Paul used generates
>> constructs that RFC7996 disallows, and svgcheck therefore removes.
>>
>> Even Alice's version doesn't scale properly. My personal fixup tool
>> produced the attached from Alice's, which does allow scaling.
>>
>> Major surgery is needed rather than fixup tools.
>>
>> Regards
>>      Brian
>>
>> On 25-May-22 05:02, Alice Russo wrote:
>>> Hi Paul,
>>>
>>> I ran your file through svgcheck [1] w/ the -r repair option, edited the output in Dia bc it had removed all the text, ran svgcheck -r again to get a file for which it says 'File conforms to SVG requirements.' Here's the file in case it's useful:
>>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/v3test/AliceBobSample_alt.svg
>>>
>>> Alice
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/ietf-tools/RfcEditor/tree/master/svgcheck
>>>
>>>> On May 24, 2022, at 9:21 AM, Paul Duffy (paduffy) <paduffy=40cisco.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Jay, but I've already been there.
>>>>
>>>> The SVG generated by my production tool is not accepted by the IETF validators (despite the fact it is fine with any other SVG viewer I have tried).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Jay Daley <exec-director@ietf.org>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2022 12:14 PM
>>>> To: Paul Duffy (paduffy) <paduffy@cisco.com>
>>>> Cc: RFC Interest <rfc-interest@rfc-editor.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: [rfc-i] Inserting SVG graphics into an IETF draft
>>>>
>>>> Hi Paul
>>>>
>>>>> On 24 May 2022, at 17:01, Paul Duffy (paduffy) <paduffy=40cisco.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Greetings all
>>>>>
>>>>> After much material review and head scratching, I have an intentionally open-ended question to ask.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please find attached a sample Kramdown draft and related SVG graphic.  This SVG displays corrected on all of the 12 or so viewers I have tried.
>>>>>
>>>>> How do I incorporate this SVG into the RFC draft?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> See the documentation at https://authors.ietf.org/en/diagrams
>>>>
>>>> kind regards
>>>> Jay
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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