my goal is more to move to using the wxBITMAP_PNG macro which would use real files on osx and some weird resource hybrid on windows and xpms on the other platforms that don't have a decent option. hence i need to convert all the files into png
On 31 August 2017 at 06:32, jp charras <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 30/08/2017 à 19:48, Simon Wells a écrit : >> currently cmake is setup to use inkscape and only inkscape for doing >> the svg to png conversion, on osx at least this is broken (only >> visibly broken when you enable MAINTAIN_PNGS), its also really slow >> loading inkscape on osx, >> >> I was doing some testing and found that rsvg could easily create >> comparible files and with some effort likely imagemagick could as >> well. >> >> Would anyone be against switching to rsvg for the conversion? >> > > Me, because I have some concerns: > > If you are making conversion, this is certainly because you have created a > new icon (or modified a > old one). > > Blindly switching to rsvg is not a good idea. > Using the available tool (inkscape or other available tool like rsvg) to make > a conversion of this > new icon is of course acceptable. > > However: > - it is unlikely you recreate the same .cpp files with an other tool, from > the same .svg files. > In other words, the full set of .cpp icons could be updated on master each > time a icon is created. > For me this is already a problem when I recreate these files with a recent > Inkscape version. > I need to revert all modified .cpp files that are created from a not modified > .svg file. > (Remember there are 500 .cpp icon files) > - I am not thrilled by installing (and learning) many tools just to manage > svg icons. > > -- > Jean-Pierre CHARRAS > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
