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Date:      Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:03:40 -0700
From:      "Michael W. Akers" <mwakers@home.com>
To:        'David Nobles' <David.Nobles@wcom.com>, Freebsd-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Modifying .DWF
Message-ID:  <01BF0A6A.4A23E220@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com>

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Hi David,
As for a DWG viewer, forget it. Autodesk will actively discourage anyone =
from doing this.=20
But, if you extract your drawings as DXF files, what you want to do is =
allowable. But do you really want to have an application that runs under =
a web browser, modify a drawing and then email it to you? Have you =
thought of the hassle to you in trying to support this?

As for putting the DXF files on the web with a viewer plug-in, go ahead. =
You can get a plug-in at
http://www.escape.de/user/quincunx/dxfviewer/
READ what they have to say VERY closely! As you might not want to do =
this. (it's a Java applet)

Another thing to consider is that there are a lot of programs for many =
platforms that can read in and manipulate a DXF file. So, why =
design/support another? If the user wants to do business with you, they =
can bloody well get their own tools to do it with (plus the fact that if =
they are going to manipulate a drawing to suit them, they will most =
assuredly already have a tool suite to do this with anyway).

I regularly do business with a company that has drawings in DXF format =
for people to modify and submit, they have the drawing in two formats, =
DXF and PDF. One is for viewing via the Acrobat Viewer, and the other is =
for downloading for modification.

Think it over some, eh?
But no matter which way you go, Good Luck!

Michael Akers
M. Akers Enterprises
Unix/NT Systems Administration and Systems Integration

-----Original Message-----
From:	David Nobles [SMTP:David.Nobles@wcom.com]
Sent:	Wednesday, September 29, 1999 3:50 AM
To:	Freebsd-Questions
Subject:	Modifying .DWF

Are there any programs under *nix that will allow visitors to a web site =
to look at a .DWF drawing, make changes and then email the changed =
drawing.  We also want to keep the original drawing unchanged.

We are also looking at placing a database of the original drawings on =
the site for visitors to select from or giving them the option of =
starting from scratch.

Thanks in advance.=20

David Nobles << File: David Nobles.vcf >>=20

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