Re: Translations inside of SVG files

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 15:58 +0100, Frederic Peters wrote:
> Andre Klapper wrote:
> > On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 08:51 +0100, Frederic Peters wrote:
> > > Actually we already have some translated SVGs in the current Getting
> > > Started documentation. It doesn't use the systemLanguage attribute,
> > > they're "just" considered as XML files and itstool does the job of
> > > extracting strings to a po file, and merging them back, creating one
> > > SVG file per language.
> > >
> > > An example is here: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/3.10/gs-goa3.svg.es
> > >
> > > It's not perfect as it duplicates the files, and it currently requires
> > > the SVG files to be declared in HELP_FILES and be in the same
> > > directory as Mallard pages, but those are minor issues in my opinion.

Looks like nobody has tried linking PNGs from within SVG files yet? :P

I started Inkscape, took a PNG screenshot (nothing to translate) and
linked (not: embedded) it from within an SVG file.
The PNG is the lowest layer in the SVG and I could put text in the layer
above which could theoretically be parsed and translated.

I didn't want to embed the PNG in SVG - per Fred's explanations above
I'd waste bytes by duplicating the PNG data for each translation.

Now Yelp 3.10 displays the SVG, but not the external PNG below. I filed
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723983 with a testcase.

andre
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