Re: Cisco icons for Dia

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 25 Jun 2002, Ian Redfern wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 19:06, Lars Clausen wrote:
> > On 24 Jun 2002, Ian Redfern wrote:
> > > Mostly, yes, although I had to apply the letters by hand - the
> > > original icons are available in PDF, and it's pretty painless to
> > > convert that to SVG with XPM previews. Fortunately SVG has a very
> > > similar path model to PostScript.
> >
> > That is very cool!  Is this something that can be totally automated, or
> > do you still have to cut things out by hand?
>
> You're welcome to my Perl script. It tries to identify connected objects
> on a page and turns each one into a Dia shape. It's not perfect, but may
> be a starting point. I've put it at
> http://public.logica.com/~redferni/dia/pstoshape.pl - you need to run
> pdftops first to decode the PDF. I have a hack to turn these into XPMs
> via GhostScript, but I'm too ashamed of that to publish it yet.

Is it ok if we put this up on the Dia site?  It would be quite, quite
useful.

-Lars

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