From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2006-11-16T00:45:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Converting SVG files to images


Kouhei Sutou wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In <455B2538.9080508@gmail.com>
>   "Converting SVG files to images" on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:33:34 +0900,
>   Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I was just playing with the Ruby svg-graph library, and it seems to work
> > well.
> >
> > I was wondering what tools people use to convert svg files into images?
> > Or is there a way to convert the generated file into an image using
> > svg-graph itself?  Let's assume my users don't have a plugin to view svg
> > files directly in a web browser.
>
>   http://ruby-gnome2.cvs.sourceforge.net/ruby-gnome2/ruby-gnome2/rsvg/sample/svg2.rb?revision=HEAD&view=markup
>
> You can generate many file types (PNG, JPEG, GIF and so on)
> if you have Ruby/RSVG and Ruby/GdkPixbuf2.
>
> You can also generate PS, PDF, SVG and display your GTK+
> widget if you also have rcairo.

Thanks Kou, looks interesting.  I couldn't get cairo to build on my
Solaris box, though - I think the configure script is borked.  But, as
long as I can convert to png or jpg, all is well. :)

Regards,

Dan