Hi Erik, I just registered with IAN and downloaded the package. Some very nice stuff in there. First thing i noticed was the size of the SVGs, they've been saved from illustrator with what amounts to an embeded ai file in them, stored in the pgf node at the bottom of each doc. It would seem this is part of the reason they seem to behave so odd in IS. As an experiment i deleted the i:pgf from one of them in a text editor, saved it and when i opened it in inkscape it now ungrouped a lot more happily. Still behaves oddly though as the file makes extensive use of svg:symbol, which it would appear we dont have much of a ui for dealing with, they also use switch which I dont know what we do with. If you go into the xml editor, and find the symbol you want, you can move the group defining the geom from inside the symbol to within the root doc. It seems to rotate them by 180 as you do, but you can easily fix that with the selector tool bar. Once its out you can copy and paste as normal. Gone midnight here so I'm not gonna dig too far but it does raise some interesting questions about how we handle symbols and switch statements at the minute.
hope thats some help
John
btw, for the rest of you, IAN can be found here: http://ian.umces.edu/index.html?http&&&ian.umces.edu/conceptuald...
--- Erik <kaver@...68...> wrote:
I have been looking at some large SVG symbol files from IAN and having trouble with ungrouping them. I can get down to individual symbols and then I get stuck.
A typical case is an SVG image of a fish. This opens in Inkscape 0.42 readily and when selected shows "Group of 1 object". When I try and ungroup it it goes to "Clone of: Group of 1 object" and I don't get any further. Obviously I want to ungroup it to manipulate the image. It has colours, gradients and maybe transparencies.
I can save it as a png and use it that way but I want to retain and use it in vector format. Any suggestions on getting it ungrouped?
Erik
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