Paul Tremblay wrote:
Is inkscape the beast that gave you so much trouble with the glib
library? I know I tried to install it and gave up after I couldn't
install glib.
indeed, but since i use windows as production platform i can wait till i've updated the linux machines; i have no idea how well inkscape installs on the mac
Why did you choose inskscape? I thought inkscape is supposed to be a great gui svg-editor, but I wonder if you need all of its power just to do a conversion. I use batik for my conversions, which is part of the apache project. Of course, it is written in java, which raises other problems.
indeed, i find installing java programs (sometimes bigger than tex collections) with this classpath stuff often troublesome (unless there is an installer, which is often true for gui based programs);
concerning the alternatives: batik and imagemagick are not good enough (hardly maintained too); i ran a sample set of some 9000 svg graphics trough the converter tools and it worked ok with inkscape; it was also fast; btw, some versions give problems (0.41 is ok, 0.40 was bugged, 0.39 ok if i remember right)
(the only drawback of inkscape is the clumsy command line print feature, kind of piping, while just writing to a file would have been nicer)
Hans
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