[Tango-artists] Newbie to GIMP and Tango wanting to export SVG->PNG :S

[Rodney Dawes]

Use Inkscape, not GIMP.

-- dobey


On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 13:00 +0000, Toby wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> Really sorry to ask such a newbie question but I was wondering how the
> nice 16x16 images are generated (from SVGs) and if its possible to do
> this with the GIMP. I wanted to make a small change or two then export
> the icons to 32x32 and 16x16.
> 
> I figured that the icon-naming-utils and the make files for the other
> projects are more for installing the complete set of icons? I want to
> just edit stuff. I was also assuming that the way to go about editing
> icons is to change the SVG then export to your appropriate whatsit? I
> made a small change and exported to PNG but found the image sizes not
> quiet right, ie, it wants to export to 16x18 or whatever.
> 
> svg2png.sh.in looks like it could be useful, but I couldn't figure out
> how to run it!
> 
> My best efforts at scaling etc don't produce such neat icons as those
> in the 16x16 folders? Any tips?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> -- 
> Toby