--- In [email protected], "Andreas Neumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ok, I'll recheck the viewBox docs in the spec, just to be sure I'm > > doing everything right. I'll also submit a post on the inkscape ML > and > > see what comes back. > > good. As I said I would like to have proper viewBox support in > authoring tools as well. I have not much hope for Adobe, but other, > more open tools, like Inkscape should really support this. > > > > > I had thought about using ImageMagick for the conversion as well, > but > > from the quick skim of some of the inkscape docs, it seems *almost* > > the right tool for the job... I like the option of piping stuff > > through it on the command line, in particular, the 'simplify' > function > > looks a really cool option for me as I have many over-verbose > > polylines which I think could be refactored down in size, so I could > > then re-import them and render them out to the web eventually. > > I would also look into Postgis. Bruce Rindahl and I both use Postgis > with good results. It also has a Simplify() function on the database > level. The combination of Postgis/Batik/SVG is quite powerful. > > > Btw, have enjoyed many of your articles on carto.net .. been very > > helpful in getting up to speed with svg and cartography. :) > > thanks. Please report any errors you have found in the documentation. > > Andreas >
Hi, I figured out the problem was on my side, mainly with some calculations I was doing to render the viewBox. Currently, all my tests are now rendering ok in Inkscape with various viewBox coords set. Glad I RRRRRTFM :) I googled about anyways and found some older posts about some viewBox problems, but most appear to have been resolved - certainly in the tests I have generated, the same problems are fixed. From what I can gleam, there may still be some problems with the viewBoxes exported from SVG's _created_ in Inkscape, but this is less of a concern for me at the moment as I am creating them and just using Inkscape as an intermediary. > I would also look into Postgis. Bruce Rindahl and I both use Postgis > with good results. It also has a Simplify() function on the database > level. The combination of Postgis/Batik/SVG is quite powerful. I'm currently using MySQL 5 with the spatial functions available there (many are still awaiting to be implemented) to hold my GIS data. I did have a quick play with your perl script for post2svg, but it kept balking after creating the initial SQL script, so I moved along as I have time pressures (don't we all!). I'm on ubuntu edgy eft and had installed postGres 8.1 along with the postGis extension and dev headers as well. I followed the instructions as per your article, but as the mod date at the foot of the page is quite old I just thought that things had moved on a lot more since the article was created. I wanted to keep the simplify separate so I can generate all the base SVG files once and then copy them to separate dirs and run a number of various simplifications over the files and eyeball the results and pick the best results for full conversion. This will be a quicker time for me to complete rather than running the script x times and generating the files with the simplify mixed into this process. Talking about convertors, I can heartily recommend J Cole's shp file convertor to sql for mysql available at: http://jcole.us/software/libmygis/ The guy used to work at MySQL and still contributes regularly to the code... if you ever need to convert for MySQL that is. I might still need to play with Batik, am going to wait and see the results from Inkscape. Will respond when I have some results. Cheers, Paul ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
