On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 19:06, Lars Clausen wrote: > 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?
You're welcome to my Perl script. It tries to identify connected objects on a page and turns each one into a Dia shape. It's not perfect, but may be a starting point. I've put it at http://public.logica.com/~redferni/dia/pstoshape.pl - you need to run pdftops first to decode the PDF. I have a hack to turn these into XPMs via GhostScript, but I'm too ashamed of that to publish it yet. > > 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. I'll have a try at the <svg:text> tag to see if it looks better. -- Ian Redfern Consultant Telecoms Solutions Logica UK Tel: +44 (0) 20 7446 1686 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.logica.com This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
