From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/19839 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: new beta Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:33:04 +0200 Message-ID: <425E1CB0.4040904@wxs.nl> References: <425D820E.5080003@wxs.nl> <20050414020347.GB28626@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113463828 7177 80.91.229.2 (14 Apr 2005 07:30:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 07:30:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Apr 14 09:30:26 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DLynJ-0005xr-1x for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:29:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE54B128D9; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:33:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03832-01; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:33:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00316128B5; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:33:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC54D128B5 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:32:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03736-04 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:32:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay02.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC32C1288F for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:32:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay02.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j3E7WvxL014364 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:32:57 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id A504F17B45; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:11:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.54] (unknown [10.100.1.54]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2BF39CB0 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 07:11:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <20050414020347.GB28626@localhost.localdomain> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/705/Fri Feb 11 17:51:32 2005 clamav-milter version 0.80j on mailrelay02 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:19839 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:19839 Paul Tremblay wrote: > Is inkscape the beast that gave you so much trouble with the glib > library? I know I tried to install it and gave up after I couldn't > install glib. indeed, but since i use windows as production platform i can wait till i've updated the linux machines; i have no idea how well inkscape installs on the mac > Why did you choose inskscape? I thought inkscape is supposed to be a > great gui svg-editor, but I wonder if you need all of its power just > to do a conversion. I use batik for my conversions, which is part of > the apache project. Of course, it is written in java, which raises > other problems. indeed, i find installing java programs (sometimes bigger than tex collections) with this classpath stuff often troublesome (unless there is an installer, which is often true for gui based programs); concerning the alternatives: batik and imagemagick are not good enough (hardly maintained too); i ran a sample set of some 9000 svg graphics trough the converter tools and it worked ok with inkscape; it was also fast; btw, some versions give problems (0.41 is ok, 0.40 was bugged, 0.39 ok if i remember right) (the only drawback of inkscape is the clumsy command line print feature, kind of piping, while just writing to a file would have been nicer) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------