I should say, though, that the design for this should be thoroughly hashed out
here before anybody tries an implementation.
-- lg
On Apr 18, 2012, at 2:27 PM, Larry Gritz wrote:
> 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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