[Qgis-user] inserting symbols into qgis

[Andreas Neumann]

hm - it sucessfully worked for me.

I see several potential causes for problems.

* Sometimes there are several parallel QGIS installations on your
harddrive. Make sure that the .svg files are placed in the correct
installation.
* your SVG images can't be loaded because they are invalid SVG. Do the
files properly open in a webbrowser?
* file permission problems?

Other than that it really should work.

Andreas

On Tue, October 20, 2009 9:14 am, sunny74 wrote:
>
> Hi
>
>
> Your suggestions did not work.
> I converted my .jpg's into .svg's and placed them in  a separate folder
> within the svg folder of QGIS but it did not show in symbology.
> Then I put them in to one of the existing folders but again the same
> result,
> even though I restarted QGIS.
> there is a button called "Load Style" and I tried to use it to add symbols
> but it required .qml files.
>
> So how to add the symbols.
>
> Regards.
>
>
> James Card wrote:
>>
>> Inkscape also has an image tracing utility built-in to convert raster
>> images to vectors. If you're willing to do a bit of tinkering with the
>> conversion parameters I've had very good results with this process.
>>
>> --
>> James Card
>> California CAD Solutions, Inc.
>> 209-578-5580 - Voice
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>>
>>
>> On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:46:04 -0700, Andreas Neumann
>> <a.neumann at carto.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> SVG is a hybrid format. It can also embed raster images (jpg,png). So
>>> theoretically you could embed your existing symbols in a raster (with a
>>> SVG shell around it). However, this is not recommended since the raster
>>> images don't scale properly. They would get pixely/or blurry when
>>> enlarged.
>>>
>>> SVG is the best choice for scalable symbols.
>>>
>>> If you want quick results and don't care about quality you could still
>>> embed the rasters (you can embed them base64 encoded in the data URL),
>>> so you only have one file and not two files. In Inkscape (at least in
>>> 0.47) you can embed the image in the SVG by using "Extensions" -->
>>> "Images" --> "Embed Images".
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>> Andreas
>>>
>>>
>>> sunny74 wrote:
>>>> Hi Alex,Fischer
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to both of you for your replies.
>>>> So I understand that only SVG files are accepted by QGIS as symbols.
>>>> Then I have to convert jpg,bmp etc into svg.
>>>> Do I have to use Inkscape i.e http://www.inkscape.org/ for the
>>>> conversion.
>>>>
>>>> Warm Regards.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Alex,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 09. Oct 2009 at 07:44:43 -0700, Alex Mandel wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In the QGIS installation folder there's a subfolder called svg. Any
>>>>>> svg
>>>>>> files you place in there will be picked up the next time QGIS is
>>>>>> started
>>>>>> and show up in the symbol picker.
>>>>>>
>>>>> There's even a context menu in the symbol picker that allows a rescan
>>>>> without restarting.
>>>>>  Jürgen
>>>>>
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