Re: [artworks] handling SVG files
- From: Jim Nagel (lists) <jim2.nagel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:55:36 +0100
Martin Wuerthner wrote on 28 Sep :
> In message <6511f0a150.jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Jim Nagel (lists) <jim2.nagel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> what's the best route for dealing with an SVG file in an Acorn
>> document? (in my case at the moment, in Impression).
> Convert to PDF using non-RISC OS software (e.g., Inkscape), then
> import into ArtWorks. That retains text, clipping, transparency and
> graduated fills.
that worked nicely. thanks.
(Inkscape 0.46 was a 33M download for my XP laptop, and after
installation takes up 146M! i did a count on !Artworks, and am
surprised it's grown to 14M; it used to be more like 2M last time i
checked. but is Inkscape going to do 10 times as much as Artworks
now?)
...
>> attempting to scale it down affects only the horizontal dimension,
>> even though aspect ratio is locked. what's going on?
> No idea. Scaling down works just fine here. How did you try to do it?
<blush> my stupidity, wanting to do what should be a quick job in a
hurry. i changed the "100%" to 10%, but of course that's the aspect
ratio, not the zoom.
>> i note that Artworks will export SVG. any chance it will ever be able
>> to *import* SVG? (now that vector art at last seems to be turning up
>> in the non-Acorn world.)
> Well possible, I have been wanting to do it for ages. It has taken a
> long time for SVG images to gain acceptance on the web, far longer
> than I expected. Their use in Wikipedia has improved the situation a
> lot.
good to hear that! it certainly HAS taken a long long time for the
web to discover vector images, which we in Acornland have taken for
granted since Day One.
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