Hi Ben, the only thing I remember what to consider was that the resulting image file has correct transparent settings for the background. When I tried an alternative ages ago the resulting bitmap files did not have a transparent background.
Cheers Fritz > Am 22.07.2022 um 20:48 schrieb Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu>: > > PSPP currently uses GIMP to generate PNGs from SVGs. GIMP is > heavyweight, slow, and commonly not installed on developer systems, so > we run it from Smake as pre-configuration. > > There's a newer program called rsvg-convert that is much more commonly > available these days. It is lightweight, fast, and more commonly > installed (it is a binary that comes with the rsvg library, which is > itself widely used). It produces good-quality output. I think that we > could switch to it from GIMP, run it at build time instead of as part > of Smake, and thereby improve the build process. > > Does anyone have comments on this? >
