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

 

Le 26/02/2018 à 18:04, Nick Østergaard a écrit :
> On linux it does not open a GUI, it just converts the images when I make.

Same on Windows.
I remember some time ago a mail about issues with inkscape on OSX to convert the svg file to a png file.

And an other tool was mentioned to convert these svg files, but I do not remember what tool.

> 
> 2018-02-26 18:01 GMT+01:00 Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto: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 <mailto: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>
>     <mailto: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>
>     <mailto: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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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS


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