[Clipart] Re: project cgi-bin dir?

[Bryce Harrington]

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Carl Worth wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 10:00:50 -0700 (PDT), Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > Yes, the trick though is that we don't have it installed on the
> > freedesktop.org server, and it seems like it'd be overkill to do so.
> 
> Oh, that's really easy for me. I can do that.

Ah, cool.  
 
> > I do use Inkscape for generating the thumbnails for the browseable section
> > but that's not on the fly.  Also, Inkscape's a tad too slow for
> > on-the-fly thumbnail generation as a commandline tool since it goes
> > through initialization each time.  svg2png's probably the better
> > solution in this case; just a matter of someone setting it up.  
> 
> Well, I'll install it on the server and you can play with it a bit to
> see if it makes sense.

Okay, great, yeah that's one of the first steps.  

You might want to consider breaking svg2png out into a separate package
at some point; in the future people may be searching their distros for
it and not realize it's part of the cairo package.

> I know that back when openclipart first started, Richard (my brother)
> and I had talked about using svg2png. At that point, cairo still wasn't
> rendering everything properly, so we didn't push much. But since then,
> David has fixed transformed linear and radial gradients, so I think
> svg2png is ready for everything in the clipart library, (at least as far
> as I could tell the last time I checked).

Yep, I remember those discussions.  We'd planned to investigate svg2png
more, but time's been scarce.  I think the team has gotten enough handle
on the infrastructure now that it makes sense to start looking into use
of svg2png for the thumbnails.  I'm cc'ing the list in case someone
would like to start playing with it.

Bryce