Re: : custom shapes

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon freemail ru>]

Greetings, Germana Oliveira!

> I am trying to make my personal shapes, dong this steps:

> 1. find a .svg image i want to modify or add to my personal shapes.
> 2. save it as plain svg format; or

> inkscape printer.svg --export-plain-svg=printer1.svg

> 3. i put make the .shape file, i use:

> xsltproc -o switch-24.shape svg2dia.xslt switch-24.svg

> 4. I create a Personales dir so i can save all mi personal shapes.


> my files are in:

> $HOME/.dia/shapes/Personal

> $HOME/.dia/sheets

> my sheet:Personales.sheet
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

> <sheet xmlns="http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/dia-sheet-ns";>
>         <name>Personales</name>
>         <description>Formas personales</description>

>         <contents>
>                 <object name="switch-24">
>                 <description>Switch de 24 puertos</description>
>                 </object>
>         </contents>
> </sheet>

> and my .shape: switch-24.shape

> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <shape xmlns="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/dia-shape-ns";
> xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";
> xmlns:math="http://exslt.org/math";
> xmlns:dia="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/dia-shape-ns";
> xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd";
> xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape";>

>   <name>switch-24<name/>
>   <icon>switch-24.png</icon>
>   <connections>
>     <point x="0" y="0"/>
>     <point x="0" y="25.5"/>
>     <point x="25.5" y="0"/>

>     <point x="25.5" y="25.5" main="yes"/>
>   </connections>
>   <textbox x1="-1" y1="3.1" x2="2" y2="3.9" align="center" resize="no"/>

>   <aspectratio type="fixed"/>
>   <svg:svg version="1.1" width="947.6554" height="87.5" id="svg2">
>     <svg:g transform="translate(770.95,-140.625)" id="layer1"
> style="display:inline">
> ....
> ....
> ....
> </shape>

> But when i add the switch-24 object to my diagram the image is just
> white? transparent? i just can see the green dots...

> What am i doing wrong?

My guess is that you're going in a very convoluted way to turn your SVG into
shape.
Plus, Dia shapes only understand a subset of full SVG specification.
Namely, I have no idea, how Dia react to multi-layer SVG.

So far, I've had best results designing my shapes by hands.


--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon freemail ru) 05.11.2013, <15:36>

Sorry for my terrible english...