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Re: How do I turn one of our .svg icons into a .cpp file?

 

On linux it does not open a GUI, it just converts the images when I make.

2018-02-26 18:01 GMT+01:00 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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