Re: [artworks] SVG scale
- From: Jim Nagel <aw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 19:21:26 GMT
Jim Lesurf wrote on 12 Jan:
Out of curiosity I just drew a quick scribble in AW and exported it as
SVG. If I load the result into a text editor I can see the values for
the locations, etc. Plus it has a scaling matrix. For simple objects
I'd guess rescaling was easy. However although the top of the file
declares the content to be a W3C fomat it doesn't give details of the
scaling factors. The values given in this case seem to all be
integers.
My hunt-around found two utilities to convert SVG to drawfile:
- draw2svg by Steven Simpson
http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/~simpsons/software/pkg-draw2svg ;(2007-2012)
- XP1dr2svg by Clive Semmens
http://clive.semmens.org.uk/RISCOS/index.html ;(2016)
One of these authors in his blurb decries a particular foreign
application that writes what he calls "VG" files -- ie, they have a
fixed factor that seems to contradict the whole idea of "scalable".
Hmm, if the utility acts as a plugin (or can be called from the
commandline), maybe we could suggest to Martin that it'd be nifty to
be able to drop an SVG file straight into Artworks.
--
Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
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