I've developed a little script in Python to insert SVG icons in Dia sheets. Most SVG icons I've tested worked well in Dia if they are in shapes
http://code.google.com/p/image2dia/ -- Utrescu On 01/10/2011 19:04, "Andrey Repin" <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, Michael Ross! > >> Does Dia still work when you remove the offending SVG? > > Yes, indeed, it does. > I though I would give SVG a try, since making PNG readable with my limited > artistic skills is a hard task. > >> Have you ever seen Dia work with any icon set to SVG? > > Well, no. I just though I'll give it a try. > >> If yes, then maybe that is a clue it would be good to share. I have never >> tried to do what you have done, or thought that it is a good idea to do so. >> As far as I know Windows icons are raster not vector. Perhaps the same is >> true for Dia icons. I may be old fashioned. > > Well, my path of logic was quite straightforward... Dia natively works with > SVG. Why can't it support it in one more place? > It didn't worked quite well, apparently... :( > >> A good work around may be - do not ever try to put an SVG file in the sheet. > > Well, here I tried... > >> You have the png. If that works then you have an OK solution for other >> icons - Convert your SVG to png. > > It takes more time and effort, than to say so. I still can't get Inkscape to > save icons in the size I want them, and GIMP SVG plugin crashing on attempt to > load image. (Though I could try to update GIMP, as I think there's a newer > version posted.) > >> If you want to see more about this while waiting for a developer to help, >> you could look among the bug reports and see anyone else has ever had this >> problem. Perhaps this is already being dealt with, or has been set aside as >> not fixable. > > Pretty sure at least crash could be fixed (just a simple check for a return > value in proper place). > >> I really don't understand why you think complaining is useful. > > I don't think it's useful. Neither I said so. > I do think I've provided most of the information required to reproduce the > issue. (I've missed the OS type/version in my initial post, though, sorry about > that.) > > > -- > WBR, > Andrey Repin ([email protected]) 01.10.2011, <21:09> > > Sorry for my terrible english... > > _______________________________________________ > dia-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq > Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia >
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