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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

We should probably update the cmake file to include the -z option for
inkscape on macos builds so macos can be used to update image files
without having to fall back to entering commands by hand.

On 2/26/2018 12:39 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> In case this thread comes up in a search in the future, my commandline
> for exporting without the GUI is:
> 
> /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/inkscape --export-area-snap -e
> ${input}.png -f ${output}.svg -z
> 
> Inkscape version 0.48.5
> 
> 
> -S
> 
> 2018-02-26 9:26 GMT-08:00 Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto: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
>>     <mailto: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> <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> <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 <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 <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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