Bill Pragnell wrote:

> Actually, the thing I miss most from RISCOS was its compact and powerful native
> vector graphics format. I'm still appalled
> that Word makes do with that dreadful metafile rubbish - I've never got it to
> work for me and have always had to fall back on hires pngs rendered from SVG.
> Laborious, wasteful and substandard.

What can I say? Word sucks. :-)

PostScript is very powerful, but designed for use on paper. It's also 
rather heavy. (It's a full Turing-complete programming language. It has 
a truckload of features that only a printworks would care about.)

SVG could be nice, but seems unpopular for whatever reason.

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