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[Kristoffer Ödmark <kristofferodmark90@xxxxxxxxx>]

Maciej, Oliver, Fabrizio

Thank you very much for this information! I will fix the icons later 
when I get home and resubmit the patches I have submitted to the ML. I 
also updated the compiling documentation after what you said, submitting 
that patch here :)

- Kristoffer

On 07/25/2017 10:30 AM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote:
> that is true.
>
> SVG to PNG to CPP requires a linux software called PNGCRUSH
> https://pmt.sourceforge.io/pngcrush/
>
> cheers
> Fabrizio
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Oliver Walters 
> <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Kristoffer,
>
>     I believe you also have to be compiling under Linux, for this to work.
>
>     On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 4:35 PM, Maciej Sumiński
>     <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx <mailto:maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>         Hi Kristoffer,
>
>         You need to add entries to bitmaps_png/CMakeLists.txt and
>         include/bitmaps.h. After that you need to build KiCad with a Cmake
>         option -DMAINTAIN_PNGS=ON. You will need Inkscape for file format
>         conversion.
>
>         Regards,
>         Orson
>
>         On 07/24/2017 09:40 PM, Kristoffer Ödmark wrote:
>          > Hello!
>          >
>          > I am working on some patches currently that adds a few menu
>         entries in
>          > eeschema. Since they seem to require me to add icons to all
>         of the
>          > entries, I am now stuck on trying to generate the .cpp files.
>         Could
>          > someone point me in the correct way on how to do this.
>          >
>          > I currently have added 2 svg files in bitmaps_png/sources/
>         after that I
>          > am unsure of what to do. Tried running a script i found in
>         there, which
>          > ran "rm -r *", causing me to have to remake svgs.
>          >
>          > - Kristoffer
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>From 1ba03993f470b4afb335b15620cda09291cae455 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Kristoffer=20=C3=96dmark?= <kristoffer.odmark90@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 10:54:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added some documentation on compile option -DMAINTAIN_PNGS=ON

---
 Documentation/development/compiling.md | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/development/compiling.md b/Documentation/development/compiling.md
index 43d388235..5e193e77f 100644
--- a/Documentation/development/compiling.md
+++ b/Documentation/development/compiling.md
@@ -199,6 +199,18 @@ version string information from the [git][] repository information as follows:
      |
      date of commit, or date of build if no .git present
 
+## Generating icons/bitmaps/pngs for use with KiBitmap() ## {#build_png_opt}
+
+Kicad has a builtin way to automatically generate the required bitmaps in .cpp format
+from svg and png. This is enabled by the CMake option -DMAINTAIN_PNGS=ON,
+currently this is only available under linux and requires the
+following softwares to be able to do the svg -> png -> .cpp conversions:
+
+    - pngcrush
+    - InkScape
+
+For adding your own icons the filenames needs to be added inside bitmaps_png/CMakeLists.txt.
+
 # Getting the KiCad Source Code ## {#getting_src}
 
 There are several ways to get the KiCad source.  If you want to build the stable version you
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