[QGIS-Developer] Rendering of Icons

Peter King pking at linz.govt.nz
Mon Nov 13 14:13:49 PST 2017


Hi Calvin

here is the svg optimisation tool which Robert recommended to me,
https://github.com/RazrFalcon/svgcleaner-gui , and the online version
https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/

Pete


On 14/11/17 10:32, Robert Szczepanek wrote:
> Hi Calvin,
>
> How to render sharp icons is described in my design guidelines
> (http://robert.szczepanek.pl/gis-icons-0.1/). It depends on objects
> (lines) location on grid at target resolution.
>
> Inkscape writes in SVG many additional tags. Our goal is to decrease
> SVG icon size, so final vector files are simply optimized by external
> tools.
>
> regards
> Robert
>
> W dniu 13.11.2017 o 21:46, C Hamilton pisze:
>> I was wondering how you turn the QGIS .svg icons into .png icons that
>> are used in the tool bars. I have been using Inkscape and the
>> resulting icons that I produce starting from the QGIS .svg files
>> don't seem to be as sharp and clear as what is distributed with QGIS.
>> The other thing I have found is that the QGIS .svg files are very
>> small. If I read them into Inkscape and save them back out they are
>> much larger.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Calvin
>>
>>
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