Hi Paul, As an answer to the original question, and in case you don't manage to get the results you need, Illustrator will actually produce the svg file with origin 0,0 (including 1/2 of stroke width) and hard transforms applied. In case you need some positive offset after all, you can add one object in the Illustrator coordinate system direction and manually remove it afterwards. You may then eventually paste the group containing your objects into your own svg file.
Domenico --- In [email protected], "sawshedges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Andreas Neumann" <neumann@> > 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/
