From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org,
"Luis Felipe López Acevedo" <felipe.lopez@openmailbox.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] system: grub: Convert grub background using rsvg-convert
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 23:19:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twrkwhs9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87egitx3r7.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Sun, 23 Aug 2015 14:23:56 -0400")
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
> This patch modifies 'svg->png' in (gnu system grub) to use rsvg-convert
> instead of inkscape. Inkscape is a rather heavy dependency to convert
> an image. This is important for users who choose to avoid binary
> substitutes.
Good idea.
> The main difficulty here was that our SVG artwork is partially
> transparent, and includes a "Background" layer with a checker-board
> pattern. I guess this layer is for convenience when editing in
> Inkscape, and apparently Inkscape excludes the "Background" layer when
> exporting to png. Other tools render all layers. Therefore, avoiding
> Inkscape required code to remove that layer before conversion to png.
Fun. :-)
If possible, I would rather remove said layer directly in the
guix-artwork repo, or somehow make that layer invisible to
rsvg-convert. Luis Felipe: What’s your take on this?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-27 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-23 18:23 [PATCH] system: grub: Convert grub background using rsvg-convert Mark H Weaver
2015-08-27 21:19 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-08-28 17:15 ` Luis Felipe López Acevedo
2015-08-28 18:24 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-08-28 22:38 ` Luis Felipe López Acevedo
2015-08-29 13:55 ` Luis Felipe López Acevedo
2015-08-31 8:57 ` Andy Wingo
2015-08-31 21:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-17 13:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
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