Re: [Kicad-developers] How do I turn one of our .svg icons into a .cpp file?

[Jeff Young]

When I do a build it opens the GUI inkscape (should it be doing that?) but then 
hangs.  (I can use Inkscape, but my build just sits there.)

> On 26 Feb 2018, at 16:58, jp charras <jp.char...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> Le 26/02/2018 à 17:17, Nick Østergaard a écrit :
>> I am not sure how well it works on macos, but it uses inkscape to export 
>> them to png and then
>> something else to turn them to xpm which is turned into cpp as far as I 
>> remember. I may be wrong.
>> 
>> 2018-02-26 17:16 GMT+01:00 Nick Østergaard <oe.n...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:oe.n...@gmail.com>>:
>> 
>>    Enable  MAINTAIN_PNGS with cmake.
>> 
>>    2018-02-26 17:14 GMT+01:00 Jeff Young <j...@rokeby.ie 
>> <mailto:j...@rokeby.ie>>:
>> 
>>        (Don’t worry; not for 5.0stable.)
> 
> Once the svg file is converted to a png file, our PNG2cpp.cmake "script" 
> convert the binary file to
> a equivalent list of unsigned chars.
> 
> Currently inkscape is used to convert the svg file to a png file containing 
> metadata.
> This metadata is useless for us, and removed by pngcrush to reduce the size 
> of the final .cpp file.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
> 
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