On 24 Jun 2002, Ian Redfern wrote: > Mostly, yes, although I had to apply the letters by hand - the original > icons are available in PDF, and it's pretty painless to convert that to > SVG with XPM previews. Fortunately SVG has a very similar path model to > PostScript.
That is very cool! Is this something that can be totally automated, or do you still have to cut things out by hand? > The shape files could be halved in size if I rescaled the numbers to get > rid of spurious accuracy - I'll look at this for a future release. No, two decimal points seems perfectly fine. > It would also be much simpler if I could put text in shape files, > although I admit that cross-platform font issues would make this > impractical. For things like the ADM, the FDDI etc? We should probably wait and see how the current font changes pan out. > The quality of the XPMs is pretty poor - I just converted them through > GhostScript, and they would look much better if they were all the same > size, say. Yeah, same size would be nice. > If anyone else has a pile of icons they'd like to use in Dia, I'm happy > to help convert them - if you can get them into PostScript, e.g. by > printing them, the rest is pretty easy. This is incredibly useful. Thank you! -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
