<html><head><base href="x-msg://774/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>SignWriting List</div><div>December 20, 2011</div><div><br></div><div>I am glad to know this too, Ingvild - To finally have publishers and printers stating that our graphics quality is excellent is a big step forward, because before SVG, we had bitmaps with staircased-circles, so this is great news they could use svg for publishing printed materials -</div><div><br></div><div>Not everyone knows how to use .svg - it is great on the web, but to use it inside book-layout-software is another story - I hope to learn how to do this myself later - </div><div><br></div><div>what would really help, Steve, is to be able to print to PDF from ColumnMaker once the svg format is refreshed and ready to go - svg to pdf is needed - </div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 20, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Steve Slevinski wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Ingvild,<br><br>I'm glad SVG was a success. Can't wait to hear more.<br><br>Regards,<br>-Steve<br><br></div></blockquote></blockquote><br></div><div>-------</div><br><div><div>On Dec 20, 2011, at 1:22 AM, Ingvild Roald wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<br><br>just got this response from the editor of the aforementioned journal:<br><br>"thank you very, very much for the excellent graphic quality."<br><br>This means that the problem was really solved, thank you for all your help,<br><br>Ingvild<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: <a href="mailto:iroald@hotmail.com">iroald@hotmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:sw-l@listserv.valenciacollege.edu">sw-l@listserv.valenciacollege.edu</a><br>Subject: RE: need help with svg in SignPuddle<br>Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:37:48 +0100<br><br><div dir="ltr">Beautiful. Thank you all,<br><br>Ingvild<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br><div><div id="ecxSkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:41:51 -0701<br>> From: <a href="mailto:alanpost@SUNFLOWERRIVER.ORG">alanpost@SUNFLOWERRIVER.ORG</a><br>> Subject: Re: need help with svg in SignPuddle<br>> To: <a href="mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU">SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 02:54:34PM -0600, Steve Slevinski wrote:<br>> > Hi Ingvild,<br>> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > We can get this done. Can you point to the source material?<br>> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > If the default ColumnMaker isn't adequate, I can help make something<br>> > work. I know that Alan Post has experience making SVG with<br>> > SignPuddle data. If he sees this, maybe he can comment.<br>> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > Regards,<br>> > -Steve<br>> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> I'll talk about my process, in the event it is useful. I'm sorry to<br>> report I don't have anything more convenient. There are surely better<br>> ways to solve the problem you're having, the solution outlined here<br>> solves the problem I have.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> I download the .svg file, which doesn't seem to be the problem here,<br>> it seems that instead the question is how to convert this to a<br>> bitmap at an appropriate dpi?<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> I'm typesetting my final document using TeX, which uses .eps files<br>> (encapsulated postscript) as it's image format. I use a program<br>> called inksacpe to convert my .svg file to .eps (the underlying<br>> library that does this is called Cairo, which I don't think is<br>> relevant here.):<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> $ inkscape -f file.svg -E file.eps<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> I do some intermediate processing, in part to compute the bounding<br>> box so I can later scale it. The method I use to determine the<br>> size, orientation, and scaling factor are specific to my problem,<br>> so I won't go over them.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> I use the epsf package to render my final document, which is where<br>> I do scaling from the size of the .svg file to the size as I want<br>> it to appear on the page. Here is an example TeX file demonstrating<br>> that:<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> \input epsf<br>> \epsfysize=1in\epsfbox[0 0 15 12]{technique.eps}<br>> \vfill\eject<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> In this case, My final render size is 1 inch, but my .eps file<br>> (which was created from the .svg file) has dimensions 15x12.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Best wishes,<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> -Alan<br>> --<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> .i ma'a lo bradi cu penmi gi'e du<br>></div></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>