[Clipart] Png's uploaded as svg's

Francis Bond bond at ieee.org
Mon May 9 18:05:28 PDT 2011


G'day,

On 10 May 2011 00:38, Roan Horning <roan at horning.us> wrote:
>
> I looked into how bitmaps are embedded into svg files. I can write a filter
> that will check for this code, and we can apply it to files as they are
> uploaded. If found during upload, return an error message describing the
> issue, what openclipart.org policies are on embedded cliparts, and maybe a
> link to a page describing how to use inkscape and its tracing ability to
> convert bitmap to true svg.

That would be fantastic, I think it will really encourage people to be
shown a new tool, not just rejecting their files.

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Francis Bond <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/>
Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
Nanyang Technological University



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