Yes!
I think it would be great to have image plugins that "read" svg or eps and
rasterize into tiles on the fly as they are needed.
-- lg
On Apr 18, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Stephen Parker wrote:
> It does bring up some interesting possibilities, however. We've done a few
> shows where line art was used for things like consoles/dials/instrumentation
> panels, etc. And we would simply rasterize those to large bitmaps. And that
> works fine because on disk they compress really well. But I always thought it
> was slick when John Carmack demonstrated real-time vector->raster (Doom4) on
> all their in-game displays/consoles... particularly for the fonts. Do you
> think this is worth pursuing in OIIO?
>
>
> From: Jeremy Selan <[email protected]>
> To: OpenImageIO developers <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 1:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [Oiio-dev] oiiotool: What am I doing wrong?
>
> I dont believe OpenImageIO supports svg.
>
> SVG is a vector graphics format, and so to support it would basically
> require adding a vector rasterization engine. Not impossible, but it
> hasnt been high on our priority list. You also dont see svgs very
> often in VFX or animation production. (even reference artwork in
> animation is usually raster based)
>
> -- Jeremy
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Richard Shaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Ok, after becoming the package maintainer some time ago I finally have
> > a direct use for oiio! :)
> >
> > I'm trying to resize an image on the fly but I'm getting an error:
> >
> > $ oiiotool freecad.svg --resize 48x48 -o freecad.png
> > WARNING: Couldn't open file: freecad.svg
> > ERROR: file "freecad.svg" not found.
> > Segmentation fault
> >
> > Basically, the freedesktop standard requires at least a 48x48 icon for
> > backwards compatibility and FreeCAD only provides an SVG. I was
> > planning on doing this on the fly during packaging so if they change
> > their icon in a future release, the scaled one will automatically be
> > right.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Richard
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