On 25 Jun 2002, Ian Redfern wrote: > 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.
Is it ok if we put this up on the Dia site? It would be quite, quite useful. -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
