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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

I ended up running everything by hand:

Create png via Inkscpae GUI.

pngcrush refresh.png

cmake -DinputFile=/users/jeff/kicad_dev/kicad/bitmaps_png/png_16/refresh.png \
      -DoutCppFile=/users/jeff/kicad_dev/kicad/bitmaps_png/cpp_16/refresh.cpp \
      -P PNG2cpp.cmake

> On 26 Feb 2018, at 17:21, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
> 
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