On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 11:07:00PM +0200, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 26.09.2017 um 21:10 schrieb Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org>: > > > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:38:05PM +0200, Stephan Witt wrote: > >> Am 25.09.2017 um 23:23 schrieb Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org>: > >>> > >>> There are a few icons with empty text, but there are also all the ipa > >>> icons > >>> that contain text. These texts should be changed to paths, otherwise they > >>> will be rendered wrongly if the requested font is not present. This is > >>> easy > >>> to do with inkscape. > >> > >> That would be good, indeed. > > > > I have cleaned up some of the icons but not all. > > Thank you. BTW, what’s the tool to convert text to paths?
I get it from the menu "Path->Object to Path" > >> So I tried this… > >> > >> $ lyxconvert -platform minimal -d math-subscript.svg math-subscript.pdf > >> lyxconvert: platform is minimal > >> lyxconvert: Load file 'math-subscript.svg', infmt is 'auto' > >> lyxconvert: Save converted image to file 'math-subscript.pdf', outfmt is > >> ‚pdf' > >> > >> … what worked too - even better because no font database is expected. > > > > I think this is going to work on all platforms. > > > >> Probably the text rendering would be broken then. But I’d guess it’s > >> broken on Mac with offscreen anyway. At least it seems so if I put some > >> strings into the math-subscript.svg text elements. > > > > I see the text when using the offscreen plugin but not when using the > > minimal one (characters are replaced by boxes in this case). > > That makes sense. Minimal is a pure QImage as „screen“ - no fonts at all. > And „offscreen" is supported by e.g. Xnest for a long time with X11. > The Qt docs contain the statement it works good with X11 and is unfinished > on other platforms, AFAIR. > > Therefore I’d propose to make the whole lyxconvert „project“ platform > specific as it tries to solve a problem we’re having on Mac only. > The Mac bundle has the version-suffix at container level - no need > to care for it in convertDefault.py. Instead I’d check for the platform > and call lyxconvert on „darwin“ only with -platform minimal. Of course > the user has to install Inkscape.app when he wants to include „real“ SVG > images in his documents. > > What do you think? IMO, the benefit on Mac is enough to take the risk. > That’s not true for the other platforms. I agree. -- Enrico
