On 11/27/2011 4:24 PM, Francis TISSERANT wrote: > yes it works well. mbaillif thank you for your work. > > Please let me express my opinion > > advantages of svg: > 1 )Inkscape is a native of the Ubuntu pakage. > > 2) the svg format is a vectorial format that zooming maintaining the > qualities of the image. > > 3) the .svg enables each translator to easily edit images to suit > their own language. > > 4) files .svg are small. > > 5) the quality is excellent in html and also in the pdf > It seems to be the ideal format for our EMC2 documentation cohabiting > with the png screenshots. > > what is your opinion on the Marc-André patch, which applies to a > library system? Can be applied by updating EMC2? should be expected to > update the library? > > tissf > > > 2011/11/27 Baillifard marc-Andre<mbail...@baillifard.com>: >> Hello >> >> for experiments and info >> >> for figure svg files in pdf works best to print and display unfortunately >> If a file you place a asciidoc svg image with a link >> for example ::images/HomeAxisTravel.svg[] >> >> the conversion does not go well in asciidoc v.02.12 ubuntu 10.04 >> >> A bug in the library dblatex is the cause >> >> to correct this bug >> >> sudo gedit /usr/share/dblatex/lib/dbtexmf/core/imagedata.py >> >> in the class SvgConverter the command parameters are inverted input, output >> >> class SvgConverter(ImageConverter): >> # replace this >> # cmd = "inkscape -z -D \"--export-%s=%s\" %s" % (format, input, >> output) >> # by this >> cmd = "inkscape -z -D \"--export-%s=%s\" %s" % (format, output, >> input) >> >> save your changes and re make your project >> >> make clean >> make >> >> note : This bug is fixed in version 0.3.2 dblatex >> >> Regards, >> Marc-André >> >> for the future and beyond >> >> -- >> Marc-André Baillifard >> mbail...@baillifard.com >> Sweet, Francis (and my thanks to Marc-André!). I'll try this tomorrow night. At a glance I don't see a problem (indeed, I already installed the latest asciidoc and dblatex on a test Ubuntu system for other reasons; I just never thought to check their SVG capability).
As I (among others) have said before, I believe SVG is the right format for vector graphics (the VG in SVG, after all!). I was not willing to state categorically that it had to be used in V2.5 because we already had other image formats that worked. I thought it more important to get the problems with LaTeXMath sorted first. Marc-André's work may be just what we need to start allowing for SVG files now rather than later. Have you used Inkscape extensively? My personal experience with it in the past was less than satisfactory. Yes it uses SVG natively and yes it is open source but it seems best suited for general graphic arts work, not so much for technical line-art work. Maybe it was just me. Also, many format converters out there do a terrible job. Their developers clearly had no regard for the nuances of SVG. It isn't always easy to get from some other format into what I consider to be usable and editable SVG. (Been there, done that, most recently with my experiments to graph HAL configurations.) These issues aren't show stoppers but they do need to be recognized. I want first to see just what asciidoc/dblatex/pdftex do now, and I'm sure we'll have to set up some guidelines for SVG usage, but these are just the usual details. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
