Re: Shape export issue

[David Arnold <davida pobox com>]

On 26/04/2013, at 8:13 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:

Hi Andrey,

Thanks for your reply.

> > I've been looking recently at creating some shapes/sheets for use with dia.
> > I've been using dia to create the shapes also.  In the course of that, I've
> > noticed an oddity with the generated SVG for boxes with a corner radius (ie.
> > a rounded rectangle). 
>
> > The resulting shape's SVG includes some spurious lines from the points at
> > which the corner radius starts.  The end result is a shape that looks like 
>
> Unless you want to do something complex, it's much, much better to do your
> shapes by hands, or to use dedicated SVG editor, again, with manual
> post-processing of resulting shape to remove any forced declarations of
> attributes from places, where they are not desirable.

I have now played a little with using Inkscape in this role (manually hacking its plain SVG output into a Dia 
shape file), and the results have not been especially encouraging.  I think the resulting SVG is a little too 
complex.

What do people recommend?

> > After some manual tweaking of the SVG in the shape, it appears that
> > a) the stroke-width style is not effective for path elements in shape's SVG
> > b) the stroke style for path elements defaults to black
>
> > Am I doing something wrong here?
> > And if not, is anyone looking at this issue already?
>
> No, you're not doing anything wrong.
> No, noone is looking after it.

Ok :-)

Thanks again for your reply,



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