Alan Horkan wrote:
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, frank gaude' wrote:
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:08:17 -0700 From: frank gaude' <tanzen@...777...> Reply-To: Inkscape User Community inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net To: Inkscape User Community inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-user] SVG or AI Broswer
Does anyone know of a Linux SVG or AI thumbnail browser,
Any half-ways sensible GTK based thumbnail browser will be using gdkpixbuf and will have librsvg installed which takes care of the SVG thumbnails. Ideally you want this kind of thing fixed generically in GdkPixbuf so that the whole desktop will benefit but that doesn't always happen unfortunately.
Adobe Illustrator (.ai) support is more complicated, and is actually more than one question.
Since Adobe Illustrator 10 the file format uses a special form of PDF and assuming certain options are enabled it is possible to view the file inside Acrobat Reader or any other good PDF Viewer. This does not work for all files but since the underlying work has been done already it might be relatively easier convincing Nautilus developers to get it to work. (Remind me to file a request for PDF thumbnailing if Nautilus or if it does already exist I'll make a more specific AI related request.)
Hopet that helps (will try and suggest more alternatives tomorrow when less tired...zZZ)
Thanks for the reply... well, I see that Nautilus does handle SVG okay, as does gThumb and others Linux browsers. I have over 10,000 AI files collected over the years and would like to continue to use them in my work as I convert over to 100% Linux. Soon I'll not need them what with SVG and XAR coming right along, but in the meantime. It's all in the work flow and time required to do a job.
Please do see if the Nautilus developers would add the AI rendering ability, much appreciated.
frank