----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 10:34
AM
Subject: What's your vector, Victor?
SVG
Greg Saylor said:
*snip* However, I am no artist and the existing graphics are already in
a
vector-based format. At first I was going to write the parser for
one of
these vector formats inside of Revolution itself, but then I
realized that
this would be overkill.
I work on a Mac, and am a
refugee from SuperCard, so what I do is save the file out of a CAD program as
a pict file (which preserves its vector objects), and import that into
SC. I then run a SC program to write a text file out that describes each
object. I use that text file in a MC program to then convert the file to
MC vector objects/text fields, and in the case of text fields, to assign them
a name corresponding to their respective textData. Primative, round
about, and it means you translate any 24-bit color into 8 bit color when it
gets imported into SC, and re-translate it back to RGB when you create the
object in MC, but it beats redrawing everything.
Be happy to shoot you
these "wonders" of programming "art" if you want to contact me
off-list.
about SVG:
I've been trading e-mails
with Scott (and Kevin) about importing vectors, and the possibility of adding
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) to the MC engine. When/if MC adds SVG
capability, any CAD program that can save objects in SVG format (as can
Illustrator, among several others), will give us something we can
import.
Details are being kicked
around, but it might not hurt to get folks interested in such to toss in their
two-bits�..
