Hi,
I use Inkscape on a GNU/Linux server with no graphical user interface in order to convert "large" SVG files generated by a software of mine to PNG. Actually Inskcape is the only software I've found that is able to manage the SVG TextPath correctly, even imageMagick does not process TextPath. I would like to know if some of you know a way to speed up the loading process of Inkscape (I believe it loads tons of things even if it's used to "only" convert files in command line) or if some of you know another software able to convert SVG files containing TextPaths quicker than Inkscape....
Any idea ? Thank you
You can run Inkscape in "shell" mode by passing "--shell" and then sending commands to it over a pipe. This means the startup time only happens once. I use it quite successfully to run regression tests for matplotlib.
Cheers, Mike
On 08/04/2011 08:50 AM, Laurent wrote:
Hi,
I use Inkscape on a GNU/Linux server with no graphical user interface in order to convert "large" SVG files generated by a software of mine to PNG. Actually Inskcape is the only software I've found that is able to manage the SVG TextPath correctly, even imageMagick does not process TextPath. I would like to know if some of you know a way to speed up the loading process of Inkscape (I believe it loads tons of things even if it's used to "only" convert files in command line) or if some of you know another software able to convert SVG files containing TextPaths quicker than Inkscape....
Any idea ? Thank you
On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 14:50 +0200, Laurent wrote:
even imageMagick does not process TextPath.
imageMagick is easily the worst svg renderer when I was testing each of the available options. The second worst is the kde svg library which is only really svg tiny, followed by Perl-GD-SVG. The not quite crap library is librsvg which is bound so hard into gtk/gnome that you end up installing a lots of desktop packages to use, doesn't support flowed text though.
The best is Inkscape, hands down. It's just really slow.
Martin,
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Martin Owens wrote:
The best is Inkscape, hands down. It's just really slow.
so ImageMagick = Bad, Inkscape = Good... I will do with that :) As Mike suggested it sooner, the "--shell" option seems to be the solution to my problem.
Thank you all for your great and quick answers.
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