Re: Dia does not support SVG as shape icon?

[Xavier Sala <utrescu gmail com>]

I've developed a little script in Python to insert SVG icons in Dia sheets. Most SVG icons I've tested worked well in Dia if they are in shapes

http://code.google.com/p/image2dia/

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Utrescu

On 01/10/2011 19:04, "Andrey Repin" <anrdaemon freemail ru> wrote:
> Greetings, Michael Ross!
>
>> Does Dia still work when you remove the offending SVG?
>
> Yes, indeed, it does.
> I though I would give SVG a try, since making PNG readable with my limited
> artistic skills is a hard task.
>
>> Have you ever seen Dia work with any icon set to SVG?
>
> Well, no. I just though I'll give it a try.
>
>> If yes, then maybe that is a clue it would be good to share. I have never
>> tried to do what you have done, or thought that it is a good idea to do so.
>> As far as I know Windows icons are raster not vector. Perhaps the same is
>> true for Dia icons. I may be old fashioned.
>
> Well, my path of logic was quite straightforward... Dia natively works with
> SVG. Why can't it support it in one more place?
> It didn't worked quite well, apparently... :(
>
>> A good work around may be - do not ever try to put an SVG file in the sheet.
>
> Well, here I tried...
>
>> You have the png. If that works then you have an OK solution for other
>> icons - Convert your SVG to png.
>
> It takes more time and effort, than to say so. I still can't get Inkscape to
> save icons in the size I want them, and GIMP SVG plugin crashing on attempt to
> load image. (Though I could try to update GIMP, as I think there's a newer
> version posted.)
>
>> If you want to see more about this while waiting for a developer to help,
>> you could look among the bug reports and see anyone else has ever had this
>> problem. Perhaps this is already being dealt with, or has been set aside as
>> not fixable.
>
> Pretty sure at least crash could be fixed (just a simple check for a return
> value in proper place).
>
>> I really don't understand why you think complaining is useful.
>
> I don't think it's useful. Neither I said so.
> I do think I've provided most of the information required to reproduce the
> issue. (I've missed the OS type/version in my initial post, though, sorry about
> that.)
>
>
> --
> WBR,
> Andrey Repin (anrdaemon freemail ru) 01.10.2011, <21:09>
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...
>
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