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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

When I do a build it opens the GUI inkscape (should it be doing that?) but then hangs.  (I can use Inkscape, but my build just sits there.)

> On 26 Feb 2018, at 16:58, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Le 26/02/2018 à 17:17, Nick Østergaard a écrit :
>> I am not sure how well it works on macos, but it uses inkscape to export them to png and then
>> something else to turn them to xpm which is turned into cpp as far as I remember. I may be wrong.
>> 
>> 2018-02-26 17:16 GMT+01:00 Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>>:
>> 
>>    Enable  MAINTAIN_PNGS with cmake.
>> 
>>    2018-02-26 17:14 GMT+01:00 Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>>:
>> 
>>        (Don’t worry; not for 5.0stable.)
> 
> Once the svg file is converted to a png file, our PNG2cpp.cmake "script" convert the binary file to
> a equivalent list of unsigned chars.
> 
> Currently inkscape is used to convert the svg file to a png file containing metadata.
> This metadata is useless for us, and removed by pngcrush to reduce the size of the final .cpp file.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
> 
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