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Re: drawing program that can import SVG generated by Railroad DiagramGenerator?
Subject:Re: drawing program that can import SVG generated by Railroad DiagramGenerator? From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 5 Jan 2016 15:20:24 -0800
No. It would be faster and easier to draw from scratch, and then I'd
have something maintainable.
I suppose that raises a fallback question: are there any drawing tools
that have good railroad-diagram templates?
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Monique Semp <monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net> wrote:
> If you don't need to modify any of the parts, but just rearrange/resize
> them, you could use SnagIt (or maybe even a simpler tool such as the
> Snipping Tool?) to screen capture at a high-res, save pieces as PNGs, and
> then use any drawing tool (even Word or PowerPoint) to import and arrange
> the PNGs.
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