From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/37715 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Zeus_G=F3mez_Marmolejo?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: SVG support Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:45:11 +0100 Message-ID: <47574617.6030907@aluzina.org> References: <47556084.9090102@aluzina.org> <47557F73.7040301@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0112066236==" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196901958 10790 80.91.229.12 (6 Dec 2007 00:45:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 00:45:58 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Dec 06 01:46:06 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J04sQ-0000DQ-2b for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:46:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 270821FB43; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 01:45:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14558-03-2; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 01:45:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE3B81FB38; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 01:45:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B45B1FB31 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 01:45:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18782-01-2 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 01:45:13 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from cafe.aluzina.org (20.pool85-58-65.dynamic.orange.es [85.58.65.20]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14B861FB39 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 01:45:13 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from negraco.aluzina.org (negraco.aluzina.org [10.244.133.67]) by cafe.aluzina.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CF4220222 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 01:45:37 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) In-Reply-To: <47557F73.7040301@wxs.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:37715 Archived-At: --===============0112066236== Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've done some tests with "rlxtools" and I've found that the conversion from SVG to PDF is done really bad now. It passes through PS (with the inkscape command line) and then the ghostscript is executed to produce the PDF. But I've found a better way to do it.

I've modified the file "graphics/inkscape" (it's a ruby source code). At line 69 was:
resultpipe = "--without-gui --print=\">#{tmpfilename}\" 2>#{logfile}"

and now:
resultpipe = "--without-gui --export-pdf=\"#{outfilename}\" 2>#{logfile}"

After this, all these lines can be commented out:

#       ghostscript = GhostScript.new(@logger)

#        ghostscript.setvariable('inputfile',tmpfilename)
#        ghostscript.setvariable('outputfile',outfilename)

#        report("converting #{tmpfilename} to #{outfilename}")

#       ghostscript.convert

#        begin
#            File.delete(tmpfilename)
#        rescue
#        end

The difference is that inkscape can export directly to pdf and the conversion is done much better, with transparencies and all the stuff.

Also, I noticed that at first it didn't work for me because at line 44 (logfile=System.null), I don't know why but this strings is "/dev/null/" in my system and when executing the command a message was echoed:
"sh: /dev/null/ is a directory" and nothing was produced. Now I've modified the caller to pass explictly "/dev/null" as logfile (in pstopdf.rb source, line 401) and now all is working perfectly.

I hope you can solve these little bugs.

Regards,
Zeus.

Hans Hagen escribió:

Zeus G?mez Marmolejo wrote:

Hi all,

I'm working with Inkscape and I would like to embed some figures
directly in vector format. How do I do that??

I'm trying this:

\externalfigure[system][type=svg][scale=1000]

But a "dummy" image appears. Is there any svg support in context?!


\usemodule[res-08] \setups[rl:manipulate]

\setupexternalfigures[conversion=pdf]

\starttext

\externalfigure[system.svg]

\stoptext

if you're lucky, it works, otherwise you need to look into how rlxtools
works

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