On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 17:37, Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote:
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 05:21:35PM +0000, Andrew S. Townley wrote:
Until SVG is more widely supported within other applications as a "native" image format, I see no other way to accomplish what I do and have scalable images and text than create them as SVG in Inkscape and export them to suitable bitmap formats (PNG, JPG and GIF) for the audiences I have.
Sorry if this got a bit long. Thanks for listening.
The GIMP has SVG support (I presume from gdkpixbuf) as does my local version of ImageMagick (I presume that is standard). I'll often save SVGs from Inkscape, then manipulate a rasterized version using GIMP or ImageMagick. As they are better at that job, it tends to work out well.
This isn't an argument against more file format exports, but rather pointing out ways to get the job done now.
I actually hadn't realized the GIMP supported SVG. I also take Jon's points about right tool for the job (for exporting/preview/etc), but as I'm not interested in any manipulation other than 'convert this to the file format I need', it just seemed like overkill (and one more heavy-duty application). Of course, convert isn't as heavy-duty, so now that I know you only get PNG, I'll just use it from now on unless I don't get acceptable results.
Thanks for all the discussion/clarifications.
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